Drive Safe & Save‪™‬ 4+

State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company

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Description

Welcome to Drive Safe & Save, a safety app that can help you save on your State Farm® auto insurance and improve your driving habits.

You’ll get a 10% discount for signing up and completing the setup steps! After the initial participation period, how you drive will determine how much you save—up to 30%.*

The Drive Safe & Save app automatically records your trips and helps you understand your driving habits—what you’re doing well and what could be improved.**

Along your recent trip routes, the app shows you opportunities for safer driving by flagging these events: acceleration, braking, cornering, phone distraction and speed. (Events are opportunities to improve your driving.)

• Check the app often to see:
• Your safety scores
• How much you’re saving per enrolled vehicle
• Your trip routes from the last 30 days
• Number of recorded trips from the last 14 days
• Opportunities to improve your driving habits
• Number of recorded miles from the last 14 days
• Any vehicles on your policy that are eligible or enrolled in Drive Safe & Save Connected Car

State Farm cares about your privacy and won’t sell your information. Collected data is used to help you create safer driving habits and may be used to calculate the amount of your discount. Learn more about State Farm privacy practices on statefarm.com®.

*Discounts may exceed 30% and vary state-to-state (NY capped at 30%). Not available in CA, MA, RI. A discount may not be available in NC depending on individual facts and circumstances. Setup required.

**After you enroll, we’ll mail you a beacon to place in your vehicle as part of the required setup steps. The beacon works together with the Drive Safe & Save app to accurately record your trips.

What’s New

Version 4.3.3

We made some minor updates to keep the app running smoothly.

Ratings and Reviews

4.6 out of 5
257.2K Ratings

257.2K Ratings

cnp7 ,

Battery Usage

I enjoy that you’re able to see the specifics as to how they rate your driving & how they show you on the map where certain things happened if you get “dinged” with speeding/hard braking/phone usage, etc.
One problem I’ve noticed, living in an area where some spots can have a lot of deer, if I brake due to a deer running across the road (which you’d think would be the safe option), I end up getting a lower driving score for hard braking & it tells me to keep a safe distance from the car ahead of me.. except it was for a deer, not me following too closely.
Also, not too thrilled that it marks you down for using navigation apps, as I use my phone for gps sometimes. Even to skip songs or have someone else use your phone for you, it marks you down. I know it says the phone usage doesn’t effect the discount, however, it lowers your overall driving score which does effect the discount.
Another issue I’ve ran into now that I have to have my location services on all the time along with Bluetooth, I’ve noticed that my battery is dying so fast!! I used to get away with not even charging my phone at night sometimes because the battery would still be high enough from the previous nights charge & now I’m having to recharge my phone at least twice a day - it’s really kind of inconvenient. If I charge my phone while I drive (suggested by State Farm), then I can’t listen to music, as it uses the same plug in area on my phone.

Developer Response ,

Thank you for the feedback! Our app will use more of your battery than other apps, especially during a trip. The battery usage is similar to navigation apps because we use both GPS and Bluetooth services during the trip. One way to reduce the battery usage is to plug in your phone while you drive.

Sighi ,

Needs quite a bit of work

A few annoying things I noticed: acceleration. I drive a Prius so there’s no issue here, we all know it takes a minute or two for Prius to get from 0-60 Speeding - speeding for passing and getting over onto the right/slower lane, really?? Braking. The app doesn’t differentiate between unsafe braking, breaking because the light is changing and you really don’t want to run a red light, breaking because someone cut me off so I’m trying to be safe, breaking because one of neighbors’ kids decided biking in the middle of the street is more exciting for everyone else, breaking because the turn to my house is by turning left and cutting over two lanes of traffic and I need to slow down to get onto the turning lane… this is just plain wrong Phone distraction. I noticed that picking up a call over bluetooth doesn’t count as phone use but using google maps or having the passenger use the phone for whatever reason does count.

If you have 10 trips with no incidents your score goes up by 1 point but if you have only ONE instance when you’re breaking to avoid going through a red light for example you lose a point?? Seriously???? That’s wacky if you ask me.

Please, continue to work on the app. It’s a great idea/concept but does need lots of work.

another and try again 100123 ,

Like the discount; hate the app

Just having this app and beacon gives me a discount, which I appreciate. There is no driving bad enough to not qualify for at least some kind of discount, according to the FAQs. However, seeing that discounts could go into an upper range of 30% to 50%, I feel like I’m getting robbed when the app keeps flagging me for “events” beyond my control.
On the first day of having the beacon, I was flagged for speeding when I KNOW I wasn’t. This has only happened once, but still it aggravated me.
More frustrating is the “phone use” event. When my wife and I are in a car together, it’s usually me driving. But her phone connects to the beacon before mine can, for some reason. So she either has to remember to toggle her Bluetooth on and off, or not use her phone while being a passenger. We’ve been dinged on this issue a bunch. But it’s not the worst….
The “hard braking”……. Really, State Farm??? “Drive Safe and…..” get flagged for an “event”!!!!! This event, from my understanding, exists in order to encourage the driver to not follow to closely. I’m constantly keeping a 3-4 second space between me and the vehicle ahead of me. But I get flagged for hard braking when I AM driving safe—changing stop lights, people pulling out in front of me, etc. And it’s infuriating!
I know I’m already getting a discount, but this kind of stuff keeps me from getting an even better discount, even though I do “Drive Safe” like the program states.

App Privacy

The developer, State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.

Data Linked to You

The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:

  • Location
  • Contact Info
  • User Content
  • Identifiers
  • Usage Data
  • Other Data

Data Not Linked to You

The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:

  • Diagnostics

Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More

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