Drive Smarter

Drive Smarter

By CEDAR ELECTRONICS HOLDINGS CORP.

Score: 4.77149
4.77149
From 17,995 Ratings

Description

Drive Smarter enhances your driving experience when you are using select* connected Cobra and Escort devices. Drive Smarter lets you use your smartphone as a companion to your DashCam. A streamlined onboarding process lets you quickly connect your Dash Cam and configure it as part of your dashboard. You can "add" a virtual vehicle to your account, then add compatible* Cobra and Escort branded devices to your vehicle. Users with mobile WiFi hotspots** can optionally connect their cameras directly to the Drive Smarter cloud, to avail of instant upload of videos and to share time-sensitive data and event information. View recordings stored on your Dash Camera SD card; recordings are conveniently sorted by timeline which highlights events of importance; such as possible collisions or impact. Select files to download to your phone; trim video clips and share with your contacts using your favorite communications app. Take advantage of streamlined reports generated for insurance claims processing. Get help using the in-built Mayday services that are automatically triggered in severe collisions - send details regarding your current situation to a designed in-case-of-emergency contact. Keep your devices' firmware up-to-date so you are enjoying all the latest features that your devices' have to offer. Emergency videos stored in the Drive Smarter cloud. *** Convenient Snapshot button lets you remotely take photos via connected cameras, with a tap on your smartphone screen. currently the Drive Smarter app and service is compatible with the Cobra SC- series Dash Cameras. Check out drivesmarter.com for up-to-date information. * should have upload / download speeds equal to or exceeding 4G / Cat 4 speeds ** See drivesmarter.com for latest storage / deletion policies for free user accounts on the Drive Smarter cloud.

Screenshots

Reviews

  • Updates

    3
    By NotsoPro
    Does it get updates ?? Every time I check it’s the same firmware and I can’t view the clips anymore.
  • Makes my dash cam as useless as a paperweight

    1
    By DrugmanRx
    Can set it up, make it work, connect to my phone via Bluetooth. But good luck pulling any video files from the dash cam or updating firmware because the app refuses to ask permission for network access from iOS so therefore it won’t connect for these features via WiFi. I have a cobra SC 400. I have tried all of supports ideas with no luck. So they escalated it but I’m not holding my breath. I plan on reaching out to cobra directly about it. Resorted to pulling the sd card and manually downloading the video but I can only get my phone to recognize the card and not any computers. Trash app
  • Unusable App

    1
    By hirkiti
    The app keeps giving me red light camera alerts for nearby roads while I’m on the highway. Same thing for speed cameras. I live in the NYC area and so basically I get non stop bad warnings. What the heck? You would think absolute basic functionality requirement would be to only alert you about the cameras for the road you are on. Unfortunately same thing for the Escort 360c Radar. It also gives the same false alerts!
  • Terrible on many levels

    1
    By mlinkins
    While the device works ok, the app is outdated and unstable. You can only have one account, so it it difficult to share between drivers. I needs Bluetooth AND Wi-Fi, so if you have Apple Car Play, you have to disconnect to see recorded videos. The mapping and routing of the app is generally not needed these days. I wish they just had a simple app for changing settings and viewing / downloading videos.
  • Don’t connect with the MAX360

    1
    By Ra|W
    This new app supposed to replace the old Escort mobile app, but it doesn’t connect with my MAX360
  • Terrible

    1
    By jmichaelowens
    They killed the old app that worked flawlessly, made you upgrade to this app, and now it won’t connect to my radar detector at all! So I have features on my radar detector I can’t use.
  • App is absolute trash

    1
    By Chris-Topher-I
    Will not join SC400 camera WiFi. The app throws an error and will not connect to camera. Bluetooth connects fine but when you attempt to update firmware or view gallery there is an error message “Unable to join the network SC400…” I’ve contacted support, tried every recommendation and still no access to gallery.
  • Stuck in the 90s technology

    1
    By YoBruhBruh
    This thing is so slow to connect you’ll be there 30 minutes trying your phone to connect to your dash cam and when it finally does and you try to view or download footage it’ll glitch and dissconnnect
  • No longer supports older models

    1
    By meizydavid
    Worked great when was Escort live but now Drive smarter doesn’t connect to the detector
  • Not Bad

    4
    By CtrlAltDe1l
    The ui is fine, but one gripe I have is that you cannot open the gallery to view recordings on the phone app while you are using carplay so you have to unplug your device to use the feature. A little annoying but besides that it is a nice device to have.

keyboard_arrow_up