Steer Clear

State Farm Insurance

About this app

The Steer Clear® app is part of a comprehensive program that helps young drivers reinforce positive driving behavior. Young drivers, under age 25, who complete the Steer Clear Safe Driver Discount Program, may be eligible for a discount on their State Farm® auto insurance. The Steer Clear mobile application tracks a driver's progress through pre-set learning modules of updated content including topics such as Bluetooth, distracted driving (texting/games), and special driving situations. Drivers will no longer need to manually record their trips if the program is conducted through this app. Throughout their trips, drivers will be scored and given feedback on their braking, acceleration, and cornering. This application will also offer a code (account key) in which a mentor (parent, guardian, agent, experienced driver over 25) can receive from their driver and keep track of their driver's course progress and driving feedback/trip scores from their own device. Once a driver completes the program, they will receive a program completion certificate that they can text, email, or bring into the agent's office. Badges have been added to Steer Clear to recognize and reward a variety of specific driving accomplishments. The badges will help align users to shared goals of the app, such as scoring a certain percentage on a specific driving behavior, while acting as virtual, motivational status symbols.

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*The Steer Clear Safe Driver Discount is not available in all states.

Ratings and reviews

Devs, I implore you, revisit this one. I had multiple instances of Steer Clear recording false "events" (35 "hard breaking events" in a half mile, one after another; it was literally a straight line), and many of my 20+ minute drives were not recorded due to the app seemingly closing after several minutes on it's own (I can't confirm that was the cause as I wasn't looking at my phone while driving, but I saw no other contributing factors). The discount is necessary, but the app could be better.

The tracking system is extremely sensitive. It'll say I have an acceleration event when I go from stopped to driving even if I go very slow, and hard breaking when I'm simple easing into a stop. "Submit a help request" and "give us feedback" options don't work, I tried going to them multiple times just for them to change color for a second then nothing happens.

There are some problems with how the app tracks your acceleration, braking, and cornering. One issue is that I have received acceleration alerts for picking up/putting down my phone when I was trying to start/stop recording the drive. I also found that if you put your device on a slope after calibrating, the app thinks that you are constantly moving in the sloped direction. In my case, this resulted in several acceleration alerts and no braking alerts.

What's new

In this release, we fixed an issue that caused the app to crash for a small percentage of users.