Drive Smarter

Cedar Electronics

In-app purchases

About this app

NOW AVAILABLE ON ANDROID AUTO!

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.

Ratings and reviews

This app is completely useless. I have my phone location set to precise and my location constantly bounces in the app. I'm lucky if it holds my current location for more than 30 seconds. Therefore I cannot use it for navigation and my speed limit is never displayed correctly. Side note, I've used Waze, Google maps, and Escort Live for many years and I've never had a single issue with my location not being accurate. How many people have to complain about the same problem before it's fixed???

Has potential but is a long way from being good. Map loads quickly. I have to click device for it to connect to my redline 360c. Several times it has prompted me to add a vehicle and device as it did not recognize my information I already put in. Then when I back out the original info shows up along with the new info I put in so I have to delete one. when using the map the vehicle icon is very jumpy and not smooth. Maps are very bleh also.

While it has a good premise, it's frustrating with all the bugs I have to wrestle with. If I stop to eat or get gas, I have to reboot the app... it won't just pick up from the stop... it doesn't automatically resync itself with my Escort. Also, the app maps lack any context... no details like we get with Google or Apple. It would make more sense for this app to sync up with the aforementioned driving apps... like when I drove for Uber and Lyft. A lot of room for improvement.

What’s new

Bug fixes