Samsung slipped a driving coach into One UI 9 and didn't bother to announce it. The feature, called Driving Report, sits in the Connected devices menu right above Android Auto. Once you grant location, nearby-device and usage-access permissions — and pick your car from the Vehicles list, it starts a trip automatically the moment your phone pairs with the car's Bluetooth.
Android Auto keeps handling navigation and music. Driving Report just watches in the background.<p>Each trip gets a map with start and end points, total distance, duration, weather conditions and a speed graph that shows average and maximum speeds. The more interesting layer is behavior analysis: rapid accelerations, sudden braking events, sharp turns and time spent interacting with the phone while moving.
A weekly summary rolls those individual trips into a broader view, total time behind the wheel, total distance, and whether the braking-and-acceleration counts are trending down.<p>The interface is clean. No dense charts to decode. The author, a new parent, said the weekly view made him more conscious of following distance and phone glances during his commute.
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