Adjust car insurance rates with new app in Qatar

Qatar Insurance Company and Qatar Mobility have joined hands to bring new road safety features to the general public by introducing new car insurance offers via built-in apps. A special device will be used in the vehicle to assess driving styles. This device will collect various datasets including harsh acceleration/deceleration, over-speeding and distance driven. These datasets will be plugged into Masarak’s Intelligent Telematics Platform via iFleet (cloud based system) to generate a scorecard which will show drivers’ ranks as compared to other drivers. This scorecard will help in making the new Pay-How-You-Drive insurance plan move forward. The new plan, as the name suggests, will judge the driving habits and accordingly increase the insurance premium. If the driver has a good scorecard then the insurance will be cheap and vice versa. The whole idea behind this initiative is to increase road safety.