- Passengers aren't driversA ride in someone else's car doesn't count as your teen's driving.
- Over your limitYou pick the speed that counts as too fast.
- Worked out on the phoneOur servers never see speed, routes or places.
- Your teen is toldDrive monitoring is never switched on in secret.
The passenger problem
A phone moves the same way in the passenger seat as in the driver's seat. Life360's help center says every drive starts out with you as the driver. You can change a drive to passenger, but Life360 says that doesn't remove it from weekly driver reports.1
So a teen can get a hard-braking or high-speed flag for a ride where a Bud's parent was driving. That's how a safety app turns into an argument at dinner.
How Outft tells driving from riding
A trip counts as your teen's driving only when:
- their phone connects to a car they marked as theirs, through CarPlay or the car's Bluetooth, or
- they say "I was driving".
Otherwise it's a passenger trip, and it isn't reported. If a trip still looks wrong, your teen can flag it, with a reason like "I was a passenger".
What you see
Every drive
High speed over a limit you choose, hard braking and rapid starts.
A weekly summary
Trips, miles and each kind of event, in one simple view.
Outft never calls it "speeding". It has no speed-limit data, so it shows speed as over the limit you set.
What stays private
- Trips and events are worked out on your teen's phone. Our servers never see speed, routes or places.
- Driving data is never sold or shared, with insurers or anyone else.
- Your teen's Buds never see their speed.
- Drive monitoring stays off until it's switched on for that teen, and the teen is always told.
Coached, not policed
When the facts are right, the talk is easier. Hard events show up as plain facts, never as a score. And because passenger rides don't count, your teen has no reason to fight the app.