[sebbe]

Hey everyone,

I’ve been testing a small side project called DriveScore.ai that measures your driving behavior and climate impact — basically it shows how efficiently and safe you drive based on your phone’s sensors.

The idea is to help people reduce fuel costs and emissions, and to learn how to drive safer where you can track and improve your score.

I’d love some honest feedback — what kind of data or insights would you actually want from something like this?

Here’s the beta page: https://drivescore.ai

(Not possible to buy or test yet — just trying to see if people find it useful.)

Appreciate any thoughts or ideas on how to make it more valuable for drivers 🙏

[olduser]

7 billion driving styles checked, that would take a few years!

[Rolebama]

As far as I am aware, the population of the planet is around 8billion, so I cannot conceive there has been that amount of drivers who have taken part. Certainly not in the last 20yrs. Or am I reading that wrong?

[Drivingforfun]

It seems to say 8 billion driving “patterns”

I guess a “pattern” is just a sequence of actions

Maybe 8 billion represents the number of possible combinations of actions (journeys, in other words) - the aim being to be representative of most journeys people make?

[Lily]

@sebbe welcome to the Community and congrats on posting for the first time. ☺

Is your research part of a university research? You mentioned a side project, are you part of https://www.drivescore.com/? Is there an app?

I know, I know, lots of questions, but I am just curious. 😉

[sebbe]

Hi Lily! Im working on the project together with a friend, there is no app yet, we're currently working on that while checking if there is an interest among people and what feedback they have on the concept. Happy to get yours as well!

[sebbe]

15 to be exact :)

Originally Posted by olduser

7 billion driving styles checked, that would take a few years!

[sebbe]

@Rolebama It's not from 7 billion individual drivers, it's 7 billions driving sessions in different environments (cars, place, people etc).

[sebbe]

@Drivingforfun Correct!

[olduser]

Originally Posted by Drivingforfun

It seems to say 8 billion driving “patterns”

I guess a “pattern” is just a sequence of actions

Maybe 8 billion represents the number of possible combinations of actions (journeys, in other words) - the aim being to be representative of most journeys people make?

I guess a “pattern” is just a sequence of actions but what sensors are available?
The most likely are Accelerometer (Braking, and acceleration), Magnetometer (Compass), Gyroscope (rate of turn and orientation), and GPS coupled with a map. (giving type of road, and possibly traffic conditions though this is often out of date.) That is a large amount of data to be processed, and compared with 7 billon patterns!

In early mobile phone apps, the bulk of any rating came from braking, and acceleration data.

It looks to me like another application of snake oil?