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Discover the revolutionary Scout Maps, your reliable co-pilot, safety advisor, and personal chauffeur companion! Redefining smart and secure driving with AI-powered real-time safety guidance. Receive live traffic updates, speed limit change notifications, and expert navigation advice for a unique driving experience. Benefit from the latest map info from a vast community of editors, GPS voice navigation, school zone alerts, and traffic jam avoidance tips - all designed to save time, cut costs, and reduce accident risks for your loved ones.

What special points can you enjoy from Scout Maps

Driving Insights with Our Safety Score Feature

Our Safety Score feature, seamlessly integrated into your active navigation sessions is a personalized tool designed to provide you with real-time insights into your driving behaviors.

Discover a safer route with our AI-powered Safety Routes

Our innovative technology uses AI to calculate a safety score for each route, providing you with crucial information to make the best decision for your journey.

Dynamic Speed Limit Alert

Designed with the modern commuter in mind, this feature is the co-pilot you need to keep you informed. Critical alerts are displayed on your screen and also accompanied with audio signals.

Predictive Navigation Magic

At the core of our innovation is a dedication to understanding you. This begins with a learning phase, where Scout Maps diligently observes your travel patterns. Our navigation springs to life the moment you start your engine.

Ways to Install Scout Maps in Car

You can install Scout Maps in your car using Car's Infotainment System or remotely via Google Play Store website or Google Play store on Android Mobile Phone:

Installing via the Car's Infotainment System:

    1. On the infotainment system, navigate to the Google Play Store app. You may need to sign in with your Google account if you haven't already done so.

    2. Use the search function within the Google Play Store to find Scout Maps app.

    3. Once you've found the Scout Maps app, select it and then tap "Install" to begin the download and installation process.Please note: installation process depends on the Internet speed and it might take several minutes

Frequent questions

01 What is Scout Maps?

Scout Maps is a mobile and an in-car app, that provides safety guidance, live traffic updates, speed limit alerts, and navigation tips for a smarter, safer driving experience. Key functionalities include calculating the safest routes, offering personalized driving insights for habit improvement, real-time traffic and speed updates to navigate congestion effectively.

Scout Maps is available on your mobile phone app store, in Android and Apple and in Google Automotive Play Store.

02 What is a Safer Route about?

With the safer routes at their fingertips, users are empowered to make informed decisions about their travel plans. Here's how it benefits the user:

Scout Maps calculates the safest route to the destination and avoids potentially hazardous routes. For each route we are calculating a route safety score, based on the information available in our backend. At the core we have trained our AI model with information on past incidents on the roads. Identifying streets and highway segments that have a higher risk for an accident. Based on this model we are adding factors for maneuvers that are statistically more dangerous than others (e.g. unguarded left turns or complex intersections).

Knowing all this, when calculating the route for you, we are considering alternatives that provide a better safety score. To let you have a choice and drive even more safely.

03 What are Safety Alerts?

Scout Maps promptly displays crucial safety alerts directly on your screen, ensuring you're aware of any potential hazards on your path. For alerts that demand immediate attention, such as sudden road closures or hazard ahead, Scout Maps accompanies the on-screen warning with an audio notification. This dual-alert approach guarantees that you remain well-informed, helping you to make safer driving decisions in real time.

Types of Real-Time Alerts:

    Change Ahead alert:

        Get timely warnings when approaching areas where speed limits are about to change, helping you adjust your speed accordingly and stay within legal limits.

    Closures:

        Stay up to date with unexpected or planned road closures that might affect your route.

    Accident Reports:

        Receive immediate notifications of recent accidents ahead, allowing you to avoid potential delays and hazards.

    Life traffic alerts:

        Obtain real-time updates on traffic conditions along your route, including congestion, slow-downs, and the best alternative paths to reach your destination efficiently.

04 Can you provide more details on the benefits of the Safety Score feature?

This personalized tool is designed to provide you with real-time insights into your driving behaviors. Drawing upon comprehensive statistical data regarding vehicular crashes and their causes, we have developed a sophisticated model that pinpoints key risk factors while you're on the move. These include hard braking and acceleration, speeding, nighttime driving, and phone distraction. Each trip you take is evaluated based on these risk factors, in correlation with the miles driven, to calculate your Safety Score.

Your score starts at an ideal 100, which is then adjusted based on the number and severity of detected events during your drive. This final score offers a clear, concise reflection of your driving habits on each trip.

05 What are driving insights? 

Our system automatically calculates your Safety Score for every trip, presenting it upon your arrival at your destination or when you return home. This effortless integration ensures you're consistently informed about your driving performance without any additional effort on your part. For a more detailed analysis, visit the Safety Dashboard, where a comprehensive summary of your trips over recent weeks or months is readily available. This dashboard serves as a powerful tool, enabling you to track your progress over time, identify consistent patterns, and make informed decisions to improve your driving behavior.

Enhanced Navigation:

• Utilize Scout Maps' algorithm to find the safest route by factoring in various safety elements while steering clear of congested or unsafe roads.

Personalized Driving Analysis:

• Monitor your driving habits with the Safety Score during active navigation.

• Pinpoint areas for improvement, like speeding or distracted driving.

• Take informed actions to enhance your driving safety.

Fuel and Parking:

• Stay updated on fuel prices at nearby gas stations for economical refueling decisions.

• Locate affordable gas and parking options effortlessly to save time in busy areas.

• Access EV charging stations conveniently.

Outsmart Traffic Congestion:

• Effortlessly navigate heavy traffic using live updates and turn-by-turn GPS directions.

• Stay focused on the road by receiving real-time traffic alerts, school zone warnings, and speed updates.

• Embrace a proactive approach to road safety.

Efficient Routing:

• Utilize predictive routes for a well-informed driving experience.

• Scout Maps anticipates your next destination and preferred route, offering alternative paths when needed.

• Seamless destination input for an effortless journey.

Reliable Map Data:

• Trust Scout Maps, partnered with OpenStreetMap (OSM), for continually updated and community-sourced map details.

Note for Google Automotive Store Users:

- Keep the 'Google Automotive App Host' updated to enjoy smooth navigation with the Scout Maps in-car app from the Google Automotive Store.