Mentor Business by eDriving℠

And it really gets silly. Smooth maneuvers seem to be the way to ‘game’ the app. There is very little feedback for a good drive or a great drive. Taking the boss out to lunch, I was driving. When we arrived, I was rated good. He was rated excellent. Same trip. Same car. No phone manipulations by me. How does the exact same ride result in different scores? Lots of time and energy and money spent by my company. And this is the best that they could come up with? How about folks that follow too close? Or don’t use turn signals? Or don’t look both ways? Or don’t park properly - even though we are told that a very significant portion of company accidents come from us backing into stuff. Seems like a huge investment with little juice. The juice ain’t worth the squeeze. It is also a battery drainer. And due to the way it works, if you are a legit passenger, you can’t pull up the app and discuss anything in it with the driver as a coaching tool while the driver is actively driving because it won’t let you tell the app that you really aren’t driving. Very much an app that is sold as one thing and the results seem to be creating a team aging the app instead of becoming safe drivers.

It appears this flawed program grades on a curve. My company uses this product. And it appears to grade on a curve. Apparently averaging the 24/7 week. Including when you are not clocked in. When you are on personal time. Which is, IMO, a privacy issue. No one likes being monitored. Especially when errors are made by a software program like Mentor is. The developers claim to use it themselves, but that’s just so they can sell it to companies. If they claim to use it because it improves their driving, their lying. And, drivers need to drive badly in order to have improvement. And that’s what Mentor does. If everyone was always a good driver, we wouldn’t need an unreliable app based on tracking your cell phone for speed, hard turns, hard braking, phone manipulation. That’s right, touch your Maps app while driving and you’re not a good driver! It’s crap!! Update: Months and many reviews later, this app may be the most detested app in the history of Apple App Store Apps. It’s rating is really zero but reviewers must score it at least a one. Everyone writing about it hates it. And those writing anything positive are surely a shill. The developer responses to reviews are laughable. Hopefully this “Big Brother” company will be visited by the Real Big Brother. Maybe then they might just understand invasion on privacy.

If you are a Geriatric going on a Sunday drive that started on a Tuesday. 2 weeks ago. Just like a Geriatric, that would cause wrecks for going either the speed limit or 30miles UNDER it, this is that app, if you are Pavlov’s dog. Who else uses “modified behavior training” with scores? Hmmm. Let me think here. Oh yeah I remember now. The CCP! But we live in America at least I think it is still America that is slowly goose stepping toward COMMUNISM with “behavior modification” to be slaves. In a “perfect” world where everybody does what they are told or trained to, this would be useful. But in the Real world where people got places to be this would cause an increase in anxiety with spending more time watching for speed signs and speedometers, egg shell both pedals, gentle turns around 180 degree turns, or not touching the phone. IMPOSSIBLE!!!! The best modification would be to leave the phone at home. Period. But unfortunately everyone has to be connected today through friends, family or work. After writing this review I’m going on a Sunday drive. It’s Saturday and I’m 2 weeks behind the Tuesday start date. I need to catch up to that day, and quick.