Ideas is there, needs work

Good: The app does what it is suppose to do. Tracks lanes, tracks lane departure, tracks speed (and preset speeding option), tracks cars and distance in front of you (for the most part).

Bad: Interface really clunky, hard to really use without presetting it up and getting all the options done before ever getting in the car, and several trips to really get the setting how you prefer it. Very unintuitive gestures to do certain things, and very hard to understand labeling and features.

What you get is really a very interesting program and you get something that bigger more luxury high-end cars get for a fraction of the price. The down side is that it doesnt all always work, its clunky and very unintuitive. I really think its an over all brilliant idea, That it can detect your lane (although it may take some time), and then tell/warn you when you are about to depart from it, can tell you that the car in front of you is X amount of distance away (although not always super accurate, but gives you a decent estimate), and that it will even notify you if the car in stop and go traffic in front of you is pulling away. Doesnt always work well at night, wont work on dark highways, but in the city where there are good lighted streets will still pick up the lanes on occasion, but the vehicle tracking, and the app dealing with the camera autofocus (should set focus fixed in the middle) probably causes some problems with the apps abilities.

Now that interface, you get these series of "panel" like option pages, that gets you to set it up, you can estimate the cars height and width, obviously the more accurate you are the more accurate the program will track for you. Then you get these series of gestures, swiping down to get to the voice/noise/color page where you can customize how you are warned when you get to a certain things, if you make the wrong gesture, there is a brief flash in the screen of gestures that you can perform. Here is where you wish you can just have the normal iPhone app setup of actual menus and buttons rather than this strange setup. Then there is exiting the option menu by double tapping… really makes it a hard thing to get to certain things… I guess the whole menu was designed supposedly around so you can do everything in the app while driving without really needing to focus in on touching buttons. I found out to change your "speeding" warning sign is to slide your finger in the middle of the screen while it is viewing the street (now i know it would have to have a database to get the actual speed limit of the road you are driving on, but that could be a cool feature).

In this new version the author added the feature to record video while you drive, the actual record button now records video, before you could double tap the screen and it would take a screenshot. It looks pretty could playing it back on your computer with the hud displaying everything, the lane tracking, the vehicle tracking, the warnings and stuff, but the only way to get to the videos is hooking it up to iTunes and downloading them from the apps section, and then there is no real way to delete the videos besides deleting the whole app… talk about cumbersome. The video quality isnt the best either, not 1080p, definitely smaller, but thats probably because they would be massive if you went on a longer drive.

All in all, this program delivers on what it promises, lane assist/departure, with vehicle tracking, but because of its clumsy interface and lackluster polish really makes it much less friendly to use. It is a fun toy, thats all it is, and if the developer works on the interface, I think it could be something very fun to use as an everyday driving tool. This app is definitely unique enough for a try, but be warned, its probably not going to the the most useful app youve come across.

kamia121 about Augmented Driving, v3.0