I spent a few years as a design lead on autonomous driving for Android Auto, then spent my weekends in a 27-year-old car doing the exact opposite. Drive came out of that gap. It turns the phone already in your car into a telemetry rig — g-force, braking, cornering, the whole trace. It also flags license plate reader cameras as you approach them, since I like my privacy. No wiring loom. No dongle. No laptop. No sign up. Just driving fun.
I spent a lot of time designing autonomous driving interfaces for Android Auto —
the work of making a car drive itself well. Then I'd go home and spend the
weekend in a 27-year-old car doing precisely the opposite, badly, for fun.
Drive is what came out of that gap.
It turns the phone already in your car into a telemetry rig: g-force, braking,
cornering, the full trace. The category it's up against costs $800–$3,000 and
involves a wiring loom. Meanwhile the phone in your pocket has had an
accelerometer, a gyroscope and GPS in it for a decade. That gap is most of the
product.
It also flags license plate reader cameras as you come up on them. That started
as a personal itch — as I noticed Flock cameras everywhere.
Free to start.
If you've run a real data logger — AiM, VBOX, Racelogic — I'd like to know what
you'd miss most going to a phone. That's the list I'm building from.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dr...
the lpr flagging is the surprise here. where do the camera locations come from, something like deflock's osm layer, or your own dataset?
About Drive on Product Hunt
“Vehicle telemetry for your next weekend drive with LPR alert”
Drive launched on Product Hunt on September 10th, 2026 and earned 76 upvotes and 3 comments, placing #19 on the daily leaderboard. I spent a few years as a design lead on autonomous driving for Android Auto, then spent my weekends in a 27-year-old car doing the exact opposite. Drive came out of that gap. It turns the phone already in your car into a telemetry rig — g-force, braking, cornering, the whole trace. It also flags license plate reader cameras as you approach them, since I like my privacy. No wiring loom. No dongle. No laptop. No sign up. Just driving fun.
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Who hunted Drive?
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