Drive Pulse
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Drive Pulse was a teen-driving monitor built by Stanford graduate Giancarlo Daniele. It combined a small OBD-II dongle that plugs into a car's onboard diagnostics port with GPS and an internet connection, feeding driving data to a parent-facing app. The app sent alerts when a teen driver slammed on the brakes, exceeded 80 mph, floored the accelerator, drove on the highway, or when the check engine light came on, and also tracked the car's location.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Public debut
Founder Giancarlo Daniele demonstrated Drive Pulse publicly, covered by NPR's 'Hey, Why Did You Floor It? Tracking Junior Behind The Wheel.'
- Company formation
Drive Pulse was formed as a company (per record metadata); coverage of the teen-driving app continued into 2019.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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