General Motors and Motorq Team Up to Help Fleets Reduce Costs, Improve Driving Through Real-time, In-Vehicle Coaching Service
September 28 2021 - 9:00AM
General Motors’ OnStar Business Solutions has teamed up with
Motorq, the connected car API company, to help promote safer
driving behaviors through a new In-Vehicle Coaching* service
offered to fleet customers.
The In-Vehicle Coaching service provides fleet managers and
drivers with real-time, verbal feedback regarding specific driving
behaviors to help create awareness and encourage safer driving
habits. Fleet owners set the criteria for each of the identified
behaviors within the Motorq platform, including: if the driver is
braking or accelerating too hard; if the driver is exceeding
either/both the posted or maximum allowed speed limits and if the
driver/passenger hasn’t fastened the seat belt.
Motorq’s secure, cloud-based platform analyzes streaming data
directly from the vehicle in real-time. If any of the In-Vehicle
Coaching thresholds/criteria are exceeded, a verbal message will
play through the radio in the vehicle alerting the driver on their
behavior.**
“The ability to identify and alert potentially unsafe driving in
real-time audio cues through Motorq and OnStar Business Solutions
will result in better drivers, which lowers costs for fleets and
improves the safety for everyone on the road,” said Michelle
Calloway, Director, OnStar Business Solutions at GM.
“Safety is always our top priority,” said Ed Peper, U.S. Vice
President, General Motors Fleet. “I’m impressed by Motorq’s
personalized approach to improving driver behaviors. In-Vehicle
Coaching compliments the features available through OnStar Business
Solutions to ensure our Fleet customers stay safe and get the most
value out of their GM vehicles.”
“The capability of OnStar Business Solutions to provide
immediate verbal feedback based on insights from vehicle data is a
critical piece of changing behavior,” said Arun Rajagopalan,
co-founder and CEO of Motorq. “While you can certainly talk to a
driver at a weekly check-in to review logs, there’s no substitute
for the in-the-moment type of feedback. In-Vehicle Coaching will
have an impact for sure.”
This service is available through OnStar Business Solutions with
most Chevrolet, Buick, GMC, and Cadillac models 2015 or newer,
equipped with the compatible OnStar module.
About Motorq Inc.Motorq is the leading
connected-car data and analytics company. Our APIs and Machine
Learning enable large fleet owners, fleet management companies and
dealer services providers to leverage data and actionable insights
from the fragmented set of built-in and aftermarket advanced
connected-car systems. Motorq’s cloud-based system performs
ingestion, normalization, stream analytics processing, and data
provisioning via APIs and other methods. Motorq enables businesses
to implement connectivity-derived insights better, faster and less
expensively, so they reduce costs, create new experiences, and
focus on their core. Additional information is available at
www.motorq.com or contact info@motorq.com.
About General MotorsGeneral
Motors (NYSE:GM) is a global company focused on advancing an
all-electric future that is inclusive and accessible to all. At the
heart of this strategy is the Ultium battery platform, which will
power everything from mass-market to high-performance vehicles.
General Motors, its subsidiaries and its joint venture entities
sell vehicles under the Chevrolet, Buick, GMC, Cadillac, Baojun and
Wuling brands. More information on the company and its
subsidiaries, including OnStar, a global leader in vehicle safety
and security services, can be found at https://www.gm.com.
*In-Vehicle Coaching features and availability vary by vehicle
model and year. In-Vehicle Coaching’s Posted Speed monitoring
feature will be disabled for any vehicle whose infotainment system
privacy settings are set to mask the vehicle’s location. Vehicles
must have the latest software in order to maximize connected
services. Software updates can be installed via Over-the-Air
updates or by visiting a GM dealership. See developers.gm.com for
details.
**When there is more than one active/current In-Vehicle Coaching
event captured, only one verbal audio message will play in the
vehicle.
Media Contact
Motorq
John Williams, Scoville PR
206-660-5503, jwilliams@scovillepr.com
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