WITNESS Wheels encourages readers with smart phones to sign up for
the Discovery Insure Driving Challenge, which started on June 1 and lasts until
August 31.
The challenges requires downloading an app that measures your
driving style, including cornering; braking; using your phone while you drive;
and the times you drive. The smoother and more law-abiding you drive, the more
tickets you earn.
The insurance group, however, views late-night drives to entail
higher risk and therefore gives lower points for good driving during these
times. Good drivers stand to win weekly draws in R1 million of BP fuel vouchers
and the main prize is a trip for four to the 2015 Monaco Grand Prix. Every trip
counts towards tickets, and recommending friends to the app earns 25
tickets.
Discovery Insure members win every month with up to 50% back on
their monthly fuel spend for driving well. For this newspaper, the main benefit
of the challenge is how it will enable every South African to become better
drivers, whether they are Discovery members or not.
Users can invite friends through the app, SMS, Facebook or e-mail
to join up and compare their driving and after a few drives, start comparing
your level of driving with that of your friends, your province and South Africa.
— Motoring Editor.
