Drive Smarter

Cedar Electronics

About this app

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

The app ALWAYS struggles to connect to my camera & requires multiple app restarts before it finally connects. It requires you to switch on WiFi for some unknown reason, even though I have unlimited high speed data service, on my phone in order to download any video. And on top of that, the videos listed have no thumbnails, meaning you have to locate your desired video by trial and error. Horrible excuse for an app that needs radical overhauls of both user friendliness and interface.

It works but could be better and there are some settings I wish it had, such as the ability to have the alert sound to continue to come from my RAD 480i and not through the phone when it is connected and the ability to adjust it so it doesn't auto start/connect, the only way I've been able to get it not to auto start is to disable its ability to always search for nearby devices which causes it to prompt me every time I open the app and multiple times while navigating the app

Simple to install and set up, BUT..... I couldn't update the firmware via the app because it kept crashing. I had to take the camera and plug it into the computer to perform the update... No big deal realistically. Problem now is that it won't connect to the camera to view the gallery, but I can see all of my videos if I pull the memory card out. Honestly in today's day and age, high school kids make apps that work. A big company should have this stuff ironed out before it's even released.

What's new

Includes our user satisfaction survey