Drive Safer and Save More with Volvo Safety Coach
Always one to stay at the front of the fleet, Volvo Cars has recently announced that it is introducing a new in-car app that has the aim of improving your driving habits while lowering your insurance premium at the same time. This is the ingenious idea behind Volvo’s new Safety Coach.
Originally published by Volvo Cars.
How does it work?
The Safety Coach app is the result of a collaboration between Volvo Cars and Cambridge Mobile Telematics (CMT), the world’s largest telematics and AI company.
The optional app will provide drivers with real-time driving insights and tips directly through the infotainment screen and the Volvo Cars mobile app. These tips are based on the driver’s behaviour in daily traffic, such as braking, acceleration, and cornering.
The tips are guided by findings from Volvo’s unrivalled, decades-worth of real-world safety knowledge and data.
Each Volvo driver will receive their own dynamic and personal Safety Coach score, encouraging them to become an even better and safer driver.
Our research shows that many accidents involve some form of surprise. What helps prevent that is predictability. Staying within expected speed ranges and avoiding abrupt manoeuvres makes your driving easier for other to anticipate and reduces the risk of a collision. Supporting safe driver behaviours is a key piece of the puzzle we need to solve to reach zero collisions, and tools like Safety Coach can help turn these insights into safer everyday habits.” – Mikael Ljung Aust, Driver Behaviour Expert at Volvo Cars
The Starting Line
Starting in Sweden and Norway, drivers of most Volvo models from model year 2020 can soon expect to be able to download the app. In addition, they soon will be able to make use of a special-usage based offer from local insurance firm if they decided to share their data. This opens the potential for more rewards for safer driving.
Worldwide Roll Out
Following the introduction, the Safety Coach app is set to be introduced in the United States and other European markets, and insurance-related offers are also planned as part of this roll-out.
Safety coach helps drivers to better understand their behaviour behind the wheel, builds safer habits over time, and has the potential to reward them with personalised insurance benefits – this offer brings together the best of two worlds: an app that can benefit the overall traffic safety as well as customers’ household finances. – Oscar Bertilsson Olsborg, head of Volvo large cars, sales and financial services.
The Drive Away
The app is designed with privacy and transparency at its core, enabling drivers to manage their own data. Drivers can first choose to opt in to use Safety Coach and can subsequently choose to opt in again to have their data shared with affiliated insurance companies in return for usage-based insurance premiums.
Volvo Cars Safety Coach is being rolled out to the following models with a Google-based infotainment system from model year 2020 and onwards: XC40, EX40, XC60, EX60, XC90, and EX90. Timing of availability may vary depending on car model.
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