Chevrolet Smart Driver
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Joined: Mar 2001
Posts: 368,390
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From: In a parallel universe. Currently own 2014 Stingray Coupe.
C7 of the Year - Modified Finalist 2021
MO Events Coordinator
St. Jude Co-Organizer
St. Jude Donor '03 thru '26
NCM Sinkhole Donor
CI 5, 8 & 11 Veteran
Requiring OnStar does make sense.
Pro
Joined: May 2020
Posts: 552
Likes: 489
From: Brooklyn NY
Finalist 2020 C7 of the Year -- Unmodified
You need an active OnStar subscription. I have a subscription for reasons I wont go into but I find this app kinda cool. Last weekend my son and I went on a road trip to Cooperstown NY to visit the Baseball HOF and the info it provided for the trip was interesting. In the Smart Driver folder it provides the following; # of Hard Braking, # of Hard Accelerations, # of Late Night Driving, Distance driven for the trip, day week or month, fuel economy, avg speed, and speed over 80 mph in % for the selected time frame. on the way up (Brooklyn to Cooperstown, 270 miles) we traveled over 80 mph for 19% of the time but hey I was just keeping up with traffic (yeah right) With only 10% coming home as it rained most of the time. Even with the stop and go traffic in Manhattan we still got 27mpg going there and 23 mpg coming home in the rain.
With this being said, I wouldn't pay for OnStar for just the app but if you carry OnStar you really should download the app to your phone.
With this being said, I wouldn't pay for OnStar for just the app but if you carry OnStar you really should download the app to your phone.
Melting Slicks
Joined: Oct 2004
Posts: 2,085
Likes: 710
From: Sunnyvale CA
When I bought my C7 I looked at the stats. It claimed I did hard acceleration and hard braking hundreds of times with just normal day-to-day conservative driving. Worthless. I checked online and owners of other GM cars were complaining about the poor stats, too.
Drifting
Joined: Jul 2019
Posts: 1,631
Likes: 793
From: Silicon Valley
If you do a paddle downshift on the A8 or a rev match downshift with the manual, it will more than likely show “hard acceleration” because the throttle opened up enough.
Team Owner
Joined: Sep 2000
Posts: 25,019
Likes: 2,712
From: Far NW 'burbs of Chicago
St. Jude Donor '13
It took some effort and several phone calls on my part to get the system deactivated and then get the data deleted. Or they said they deleted it...
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