The Motive AI Dashcam Plus accurately detects unsafe driving, contributing significantly to driver safety by helping reduce risk and accidents on the road. Accuracy is critical in the seconds after an accident too. Accidents carry steep costs — affecting people, property and reputation. Motive’s AI swiftly detects 99% of severe collisions and quickly delivers video footage to safety managers. This precise accident detection ensures that you can act fast to recover, maximizing the chances for a favorable outcome. Vital evidence is preserved, giving managers the essential data and insights to quickly help drivers and simplify the incident management process.
The science behind 99% accuracy
For every actual collision we detect, we’ve also analyzed hundreds of events that could be crashes to ensure we don’t miss anything. Unlike competitors that only factor in g-forces, Motive uses computer vision and key telematic signals to detect collisions, like how fast the vehicle is speeding up or slowing down, and the direction and speed it’s rotating. Computer vision detects low-severity collisions such as sideswipes and fender benders with vehicles within the camera’s view, incidents often missed by traditional telematics due to the low impact force.
Collision videos are reviewed within seconds by EVE, Motive’s Event Validation Engine. Our 400+ member Safety Team then removes any false positives and ensures nothing is missed.
Our AI, trained on more than 10,000 real-world collisions, is regularly updated to improve accuracy and detect even more collisions. The confidence in our 99% accuracy rate is backed by a rigorous analysis of missed collisions that were later flagged by support or recalled by customers.
The challenge of replicating Motive’s precision and speed
Motive’s precision in collision detection is hard to replicate. It’s the result of our unique AI model development process, event validation, robust dash cam hardware that captures footage even in catastrophic accidents, and over eight years of award-winning, machine learning expertise.
Our collision detection is designed to alert managers in seconds. Our system prioritizes potential collision videos and uploads them immediately, placing them at the front of the review queue, ahead of non-collision events. On average, within 60 seconds of a collision, the event is pushed to the Motive Dashboard — triggering an email alert to managers. In contrast, competitors may take up to a full day to notify managers about a collision.
In a Motive survey of customers with more than 100 vehicles, nearly half of those who switched from other providers reported that their old systems detected only 80% of collisions, leading to 59% incurring financial losses and 31% facing costs over $50,000.
“We did have a company that we were using beforehand that had what I would call ‘dash cams,’” said Sam Watts, Safety Supervisor at Meiborg Inc. “We wouldn’t get notified with those. And when we would find out that ‘hey, we did have a collision with something’, we could go back and look at the dash cam, it only recorded like eight-second increments, and even those eight seconds were like grainy 1950’s film.”
See how Motive’s accurate collision detection has helped Meiborg.
It’s important to note that increasing AI accuracy from 98% to 99% is much harder than moving from 80% to 90%, as it involves training the model on less frequent, more unique, real-world scenarios. The Motive Safety Team plays a pivotal role in our validation process, curating thousands of uncommon scenarios to refine the model.
Complete coverage from major incidents to minor mishaps
Motive offers comprehensive accident detection coverage, accurately capturing all levels of safety events, from high-severity incidents such as t-bones and rollovers to the more frequent, less severe scenarios like fender benders, sideswipes, or backup accidents at worksites.
Let’s take a look at some collisions identified by Motive.
A complete accident management solution
At Motive, accuracy is more than a statistic – it’s vital for driver safety, ensuring swift response in emergencies and helping reduce legal and financial risks. Our system simplifies the post-accident process: No longer do you need to manually retrieve accident footage or spend time reconstructing events. Our comprehensive accident management system proactively delivers what you need.
“We had a safety incident shortly after installing dash cams that would have taken us months to resolve without Motive,” said Don Penepent, Concrete Division Manager at Tilcon. “With the Motive cameras, it took us about 17 seconds to understand what happened and exonerate our driver.”
When an incident happens, safety managers receive instant alerts, accompanied by video and detailed automatic collision reports. These reports, crucial for understanding the accident, can be readily shared with insurance providers. Safety managers can also quickly share videos with drivers, providing essential evidence for roadside exoneration.
And because we detect collisions so quickly and accurately, Motive is the first and only platform that connects you directly with first responders during severe collisions — getting life-saving help to your drivers faster.
Even in extreme collisions where power is lost, the AI Dashcam Plus’ battery backup ensures footage is saved. And because video is uploaded within seconds, it’s captured even in the case of fire.
Coming soon, collision walkthroughs in the Driver App will help ensure drivers properly document accidents in line with company policy.
See Motive’s accident management solution in action:
Since adopting Motive, customers report reducing accident-related costs by 63% annually. Take a tour to see what the Motive Driver Safety platform can do for your organization today.