Certain driving alerts like hard braking and rapid acceleration can be set to light, moderate, or excessive. You'll choose which alerts you recieve when you setup the notification.
Fundamentally, these events are measures of a speed change over a period of time. All of these are recorded and displayed on completed trips and the settings just determine whether you will receive an alert on your device.
Defining Hard Braking and Rapid Acceleration
An 8 MPH decrease within 1 second or less will be identified as a hard braking event.
An 8 MPH increase within 1 second or less will be identified as a rapid acceleration event.
Calculating Trip Notifications
The number of events is divided by the length of your trip, which provides a measure of what would be considered light, moderate, or excessive.
Light: Three events during a 20-mile trip would trigger for Light
Moderate: Five events during a 20-mile trip would trigger for Moderate
Excessive: Seven events during a 20-mile trip would trigger for Excessive
For example, if rapid acceleration settings are set to send notifications when they occur, and a driver has three rapid acceleration events in one 20-mile trip, at the end of the trip, the Light setting would be triggered and sent to you in the app.
If the driver had three rapid acceleration events during one 50-mile trip, that would not trigger a notification. It's the same number of events, but over a longer distance.
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