App Profile: SaferCar
Android / Games / Puzzles
SaferCar
Installs:
Rating:
2.75
Total Reviews:
91
Top Countries:
US, CA
< $5k
/mo
< 5k
/mo
Reviews: What People Think About SaferCar
Skylais1
Rating: 3/5
What a joke. Makes me think they are collecting some other sort of data. Shouldn’t be that difficult to send a notification without the app needing to be running in background. Many other apps do it just fine.
Edit: developer responded stating this was for security purposes, and thus I’ve bumped up my stats as I value security.
This makes sense to me as all the personal information can be kept on the client-side (iPhone).
It would be cool I think to have a server-side system that can check once a day for any users that subscribe to such system. For privacy considerations, I’m sure an randomly generated
unique id for each app user and hashed values may offer some protection.
plaintiger
Rating: 4/5
There seem to be an awful lot of complaints on here about the app not taking people's VINs, but it took the VIN for my (not extremely common) car just fine. I wonder if it would help others to do what I did, which was to pull the car up first by year, make and model and then put the VIN in the box that appears below the car for that purpose.
Anyway, so far so good. And I don't think I'm terribly concerned about the app having to run in the background because anytime I go to quit all the apps on my phone I find I have about 50 of them running in the background already, some that I haven't used in a month or more, so adding one more to that list doesn't seem a big deal to me.
harley&me
Rating: 1/5
Update: There’s more at stake when having to keep an app operating in the background than how often it communicates with home. And the excuse the developer gives for requiring keeping the app open doesn’t hold water. Also, the VIN entry fail is persistent and calling them as instructed by the error popup was a waste of time bc I had to leave a message and no-one returned my call.
Original: I’m also not interested in an app that requires that it constantly be open and running in the background for it to work. By the way, it doesn’t work then either. A waste of time for the user and an example of what gives government agencies an image of ineptitude.
About SaferCar
SaferCar is your connection to automotive safety recall information directly from the official source—the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Every year, NHTSA manages millions of recalls affecting vehicles, tires, car seats and related equipment. SaferCar will notify you about any safety recalls affecting your vehicle or equipment as long as you leave it running in the background. With the SaferCar app, you can:
• Enter a vehicle identification number (VIN) for as many vehicles as you own. Your virtual garage will accept VINs for cars, trucks, vans, SUVs, motorcycles and more.
• Enter any related automotive products you own that could be subject to safety recalls, like tires, car seats and trailers.
• Opt-in to receive notifications on your mobile device for each of the vehicles and products you’ve entered.
• Know you’ll be better informed should any recall impact your vehicle or related equipment.
• Check out NHTSA 5-Star Safety Ratings, and our online car seat tools that help you find the right seat, understand ease-of-use and check to make sure it’s installed correctly.
• Know that NHTSA will never store or share your user data.
To protect your privacy, NHTSA doesn’t store your device or VIN information on a server in order to send you a notification when a new recall is issued. This means SaferCar needs to run in the background so it can check for recall updates periodically from your device. If you force quit SaferCar, immediately reopen the app. From Apple: You should force an app to close only if it’s unresponsive.
• Enter a vehicle identification number (VIN) for as many vehicles as you own. Your virtual garage will accept VINs for cars, trucks, vans, SUVs, motorcycles and more.
• Enter any related automotive products you own that could be subject to safety recalls, like tires, car seats and trailers.
• Opt-in to receive notifications on your mobile device for each of the vehicles and products you’ve entered.
• Know you’ll be better informed should any recall impact your vehicle or related equipment.
• Check out NHTSA 5-Star Safety Ratings, and our online car seat tools that help you find the right seat, understand ease-of-use and check to make sure it’s installed correctly.
• Know that NHTSA will never store or share your user data.
To protect your privacy, NHTSA doesn’t store your device or VIN information on a server in order to send you a notification when a new recall is issued. This means SaferCar needs to run in the background so it can check for recall updates periodically from your device. If you force quit SaferCar, immediately reopen the app. From Apple: You should force an app to close only if it’s unresponsive.
File size: 74762240
Launched countries: USCA
Minimum OS version: 13.0
Release Date: 1598598000000
Published by NATIONAL HIGHWAY TRAFFIC SAFETY ADMINISTRATION
Website url:
Publisher country: US
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