That’s a big problem. It causes good drivers to overpay for car insurance because risk scoring apps treat every trip as if their policyholder was driving (even those dodgy taxi rides). It also results in many accidents because navigation apps, despite their warnings and reminders, have to let all users (passengers and drivers) search for destinations and enter text while the car is moving.

We have a range of patented methods to determine a user’s role in any given trip. Some allow a user to actively prove they aren’t the driver (see an example) while others run passively in the background, analyzing data from the sensors on the phone itself. And they all work without any specialized hardware or connection to the vehicle.