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Cambridge Mobile Telematics (CMT), the world’s largest telematics provider, today announced DriveWell Fleet, a solution that enables commercial auto insurers to strengthen pricing decisions across their entire book of business by incorporating telematics data. DriveWell Fleet brings the benefits of CMT’s proven telematics platform to the commercial auto ecosystem, delivering normalized telematics service provider (TSP) data from connected vehicles and offers proprietary hardware solutions for unconnected vehicles, enabling 100% telematics coverage for fleets.

Cambridge Mobile Telematics (CMT), the world’s largest telematics service provider, today announced the release of its annual report on distracted driving and road safety, “The State of US Road Risk in 2024.” The report, which includes analyses from over one billion car trips across millions of US drivers, shows that distracted driving fell by 4.5% in 2023, the first decrease since 2020. The report evaluates the various factors that can reduce distracted driving, including consent-driven usage-based insurance (UBI) programs, hands-free legislation, and increased media coverage of the dangers of distracted driving. CMT estimates this reduction in distracted driving helped prevent over 55,000 crashes, 31,000 injuries, 250 fatalities, and close to $2.2 billion in economic damages (from loss of work to medical costs and insurance costs avoided with safer driving) in the US in 2023.*

Cambridge Mobile Telematics (CMT), the world's largest telematics service provider, today announced the initial impact of Missouri’s new Siddens Benning Hands-Free Law, which began on August 28, 2023. One month before the law, drivers in Missouri spent an average of 1 minute and 45 seconds of every hour behind the week handling their phones. Since the law began, distracted driving in Missouri has dropped to 1 minute and 42 seconds, a reduction of 2.86%.

Cambridge Mobile Telematics (CMT), the world's largest telematics service provider, today announced an analysis that shows that phone screen interaction during the back-to-school period has increased from 2020 to 2022. In 2020, drivers spent 1 minute and 52 seconds on their phones per driving hour from August 1 through Labor Day. By 2022, this distraction rose to 2 minutes and 9 seconds, a 15% increase.

Cambridge Mobile Telematics (CMT), the world’s largest telematics service provider, today announced an analysis of the impact of the new hands-free law in Michigan, which began June 30, 2023. The analysis shows that Michigan drivers spent an average of 1 minute and 47 seconds per hour on the road handling their phones in June. Since the start of the hands-free law, phone motion distraction has fallen to an average of 1 minute and 35 seconds per hour, a drop of 11.2%.

Cambridge Mobile Telematics (CMT), the world's largest telematics service provider, today announced the first analysis of the hands-free law enacted in Alabama on June 16, 2023. The new data shows a 2.4% reduction in distracted driving one month after Alabama Governor Kay Ivey signed a bill prohibiting drivers from handling their phones while driving. From May 16 through June 15, Alabama drivers spent an average of 2 minutes and 5 seconds driving distracted. In the month since the law passed, time spent distracted decreased by 3 seconds.

Cambridge Mobile Telematics (CMT), the world’s largest telematics service provider, today announced an updated analysis of the hands-free law enacted in Ohio on April 4, 2023. The new data shows that the initial gains from the law have continued, averaging a 10% reduction compared to March of this year. Prior to the law, Ohio drivers spent an average of 1 minute and 39 seconds handling their phones while driving. Since April 4, that figure has dropped to an average of 1 minute and 30 seconds, a 9-second reduction.

Cambridge Mobile Telematics (CMT), the world’s largest telematics service provider, today announced a new analysis on the distracted driving levels in Ohio, just three weeks after the state enacted a handheld phone ban. The analysis shows that Ohio drivers spent an average of 1 minute and 39 seconds per hour on the road handling their phones in March. Since the handheld ban began on April 4, phone motion distraction has fallen to an average of 1 minute and 31 seconds per hour, a drop of over 8%.

Cambridge Mobile Telematics (CMT), the world’s largest telematics service provider, today announced the availability of its 2023 distracted driving report: The State of Distracted Driving in 2023 & the Future of Road Safety. By almost every metric CMT measures, distracted driving is more prevalent than ever on US roadways. Drivers are spending more time interacting with their phones on more trips.

Cambridge Mobile Telematics (CMT), the world's largest telematics service provider, announced today the formation of a dedicated Road Safety Board, with Steve Kiefer, a renowned advocate for safer roads, appointed as its chairperson. Creating the Safety Board reinforces CMT's commitment to its mission of making roads and drivers safer across the globe.

The Oklahoma Challenge, a traffic safety program focused on educating young drivers about the dangers of distracted driving, and Cambridge Mobile Telematics (CMT), the world’s largest telematics service provider, have partnered on the Oklahoma Safe Driving Contest, a safe driving competition for teen drivers. The competition incentivizes and rewards young drivers by providing a competitive platform and the opportunity to win money, prizes, and resources for their schools and clubs. The GHSA and the Oklahoma Highway Safety Office are key partners that have made this possible.

Cambridge Mobile Telematics (CMT), the world’s largest telematics service provider, announced today that it has acquired Amodo, an award-winning telematics company based in Europe. The acquisition brings together two telematics companies with large and growing footprints in Europe, giving Amodo’s customers access to the most advanced telematics solutions for driver risk measurement, proactive crash and claims services, and behavioral modification to reduce driving risk. Amodo will adopt the CMT name.

Cambridge Mobile Telematics (CMT), the world’s largest telematics service provider, today announced a new solution to change driver behavior and reduce crash frequency. Traditionally, insurers and fleets have used hardware devices that alert drivers to unsafe driving behaviors in real-time. The problem is that these hardware solutions are expensive. CMT’s new Hard Brake Alerts provides the same real-time feedback and frequency reductions only using a driver’s phone — no hardware required.

Cambridge Mobile Telematics (CMT), the world’s largest telematics service provider, today announced the official launch of FuelStar, a new app that helps consumers save up to 40%* on gas by showing them how to drive more efficiently. FuelStar analyzes driving patterns that consume gas faster — such as rapid acceleration, speeding, and hard braking — and teaches people how to make small changes in their driving habits to help them save money at the gas pump.

Cambridge Mobile Telematics (CMT), the world’s largest telematics service provider, today announced DriveWell Messaging, a new way for auto insurers, automakers, rideshare, fleet, wireless, and safety companies to automatically engage their customers at key moments in the customer lifecycle. DriveWell Messaging leverages engagement insights across CMT’s DriveWell® platform to message the right person at the right time, optimizing customer acquisition, engagement, and retention.

1st CENTRAL, a leading provider of technology-enabled insurance services, and Cambridge Mobile Telematics (CMT), the world’s largest telematics service provider, have announced the launch of 1st CENTRAL Connect, a telematics-based insurance product that provides 1st CENTRAL customers with safe driving discounts at renewal and guidance on making a claim if it detects a crash. Those with higher scores can be offered significant discounts at renewal.

Cambridge Mobile Telematics (CMT), the world’s largest telematics service provider, will share its new research findings into driving risk for electric, hybrid, and traditional vehicles in a keynote today at the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety Charging Into an Electrified Future Conference. The new research shows that drivers of electric vehicles exhibit acceleration risks ranging from 180% to 340% higher than when driving traditional combustion vehicles. In the keynote, CMT will answer the question of how this risk translates to safety and, ultimately, crash outcomes. The data for the research comes from millions of vehicles across the CMT DriveWell® Platform.

The Kiefer Foundation and Cambridge Mobile Telematics (CMT), the world’s largest telematics service provider, today announced that they’ve partnered to combat distracted driving through the foundation’s annual “Swing for Safe Driving” Ball Golf Tournament. CMT will be the title sponsor of the event held at the historic Oakland Hills Country Club in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, on May 23.

Cambridge Mobile Telematics (CMT), the world’s largest telematics service provider, today announced Advanced Risk, a groundbreaking risk segmentation solution that delivers next-generation telematics variables. Auto insurers use Advanced Risk to derive proprietary insights from customer driving behavior. With Advanced Risk, insurers can analyze and measure driver risk using innovative new variables like Contextual Speed, Advanced Distraction, Compound Events, and more.

Cambridge Mobile Telematics (CMT), the world’s largest telematics service provider, today announced that it is powering the new automatic crash assistance and digital claims services offered by HUK-COBURG, Germany's largest insurer for private households. The programs use CMT’s AI-driven telematics platform, DriveWell®, to automatically detect car crashes and notify an accident service reporting provider to organize rescue. The digital claims program creates digital damage reports that help customers with their claim. Both programs are free for HUK-COBURG and HUK24 telematics customers in the Mein Auto app.

Cambridge Mobile Telematics (CMT), the world’s largest telematics service provider, today announced the availability of its 2022 US Distracted Driving Report. The report explores driving behaviors like driving time, speeding, and phone distraction from 2019 through 2022 in the United States. The new report is available for free on the CMT website.

Cambridge Mobile Telematics (CMT), the world’s largest telematics service provider, today announced the expansion of its AI-driven telematics platform, DriveWell®, to connected vehicles. The industry-leading platform gathers sensor data from millions of IoT devices, including smartphones, proprietary Tags, dashcams, third-party devices — and now, connected vehicles with DriveWell Auto™ — and fuses them with contextual data to create a unified view of policy risk from driver and vehicle behavior. The normalization of driving data across disparate data sources provides auto insurers, automakers, rideshare, fleet, wireless, and safety companies an unparalleled, physics-based view into what’s actually happening on the road and behind the wheel.

Buckle, a tech-enabled financial services company, is partnering with Cambridge Mobile Telematics (CMT), the world’s leading mobile telematics and analytics provider, to bring the award-winning DriveWell telematics platform to its gig economy drivers.

The Safe Roads Alliance today announced the first annual Global Road Safety Week Relay to raise awareness for traffic safety and encourage the public, businesses, advocates, state agencies, and survivors to join the movement for safer roads. The Relay starts May 15, 2022, and proceeds from the event will help fund programs like Kids Speaking Up for Road Safety, Focus on Road Safety, and the America Walks Community Change Grants Program, which any municipality in the Commonwealth can apply for. Cambridge Mobile Telematics, the global leader in mobile telematics and analytics and leading advocate for safer roads and drivers, is the exclusive Platinum Partner of the event. People interested in walking, running, cycling, or rolling in the relay can register here.

Cambridge Mobile Telematics (CMT), the global leader in mobile telematics, announced its behavior-based premium insurance scoring model has just been approved in Idaho for both personal and commercial lines. CMT now has both personal and commercial lines scoring models approved in 49 U.S. states including Washington D.C.

Paydrive, the Nordic region's leading insurtech in car insurance, is partnering with Cambridge Mobile Telematics (CMT), the global leader in smartphone telematics, to upgrade its unique pricing engine with industry-leading driving intelligence.

In the spirit of National Teen Driver Safety Week, the Safe Roads Alliance (SRA) and Cambridge Mobile Telematics (CMT) are partnering to remind parents and teen drivers that phone distraction and other driving risks are learned behaviors, and can be unlearned with education and practice.

Cambridge Mobile Telematics (CMT), the global leader in smartphone telematics, has partnered with Verizon (VZ) to bring new premium features to the Verizon Smart Family app, including teen driver monitoring and scoring, and crash detection that notifies family members after an accident.

SWAN, the leading financial solutions provider in Mauritius for insurance, retirement planning, wealth management and stockbroking, has partnered with Cambridge Mobile Telematics (CMT), the global leader in mobile telematics, to launch the most innovative connected insurance program in Mauritius.

Linear Assicurazioni (Unipol Group’s direct insurance brand) is partnering with Cambridge Mobile Telematics (CMT), bringing together the world’s largest usage-based insurance (UBI) group and the global leader in mobile telematics to launch the first Try-Before-You-Buy program for Italian drivers.

COUNTRY Financial® has announced a partnership with Cambridge Mobile Telematics (CMT), the global leader in smartphone telematics, to launch COUNTRY Financial DriverIQ, an innovative program that provides feedback on driving behavior and provide discounts to safer drivers.

HDI SEGUROS, a leading auto insurance companies in Mexico, has partnered with Cambridge Mobile Telematics (CMT), the world’s largest telematics service provider, to launch HDI iDriving, a complete safety solution based on mobile telematics that helps drivers improve on risky driving behavior, detect crashes, and provide proactive response in the event of an accident.

Cambridge Mobile Telematics (CMT), the global leader in mobile telematics and analytics, has acquired TrueMotion, the second largest mobile telematics provider. This acquisition, which closed yesterday, unites the two leading companies in the rapidly growing mobile telematics industry. CMT will now provide telematics services to 21 out of the 25 largest auto insurers in the United States, and across more than 20 countries, including Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, South Africa, Japan, and Australia.

Cambridge Mobile Telematics (CMT), the global leader in smartphone telematics, announced its behavior-based premium insurance scoring model has just been approved in New York for personal lines. By adding the Empire State, CMT now has scoring models approved in 48 of 50 U.S. States plus Washington D.C.

Safr, the ridesharing and non-emergency medical transportation innovator, and Cambridge Mobile Telematics (CMT), the global leader in smartphone telematics, have announced a strategic partnership to jointly improve driver and passenger safety through CMT’s market-leading DriveWell platform.

Cambridge Mobile Telematics (CMT), the world’s largest mobile telematics and analytics provider, announced today that it has entered into a partnership with CROC, one of the leading IT companies in Russia providing expertise to insurance companies for over 17 years.