Comparing Netradyne & Motive.

Netradyne’s alerts are up to 99% accurate with no need for human review. This high level of accuracy is achieved by analyzing vast amounts of data. Netradyne's precision is a result of many factors, but the main advantage is that it analyzes 100% of drive time, giving its models a wealth of training data. No other fleet safety solution providers analyze all driving time.

In a 2023 Virginia Tech study, Motive achieved 86% alert accuracy across six unsafe driving categories. Motive requires human review for all safety alerts. The company's limited event-based analysis assesses only specific driving events rather than the full driving day, which may lead to missed coaching opportunities and fewer chances to recognize safe driving.

"We’ve processed over 25 billion miles of anonymized driving data — and we’re adding 700 million more each month. This isn’t just GPS data. We track the trajectory of every object, read over 100 types of signs, and understand full visual context. That lets us generate incredibly accurate risk assessments, including a driver’s GreenZone Score — a proprietary metric that correlates directly with accident reduction."

Avneesh Agrawal
Founder & CEO of Netradyne‍
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Netradyne uploads data to the cloud within three minutes, ensuring that fleet managers receive key notifications while they're still relevant. The system's advanced AI is specifically trained to accurately detect and assess the severity of various driving behaviors to be coached in the moment so drivers can modify their actions. 

Motive requires human reviewers to confirm the accuracy of every safety alert. The company aims to review every video clip within 10 minutes, but this is not always possible.

Because Netradyne’s AI alerts are so accurate, there is no need for human review. Drivers and their managers get immediate insights they can use to improve safety performance.

To filter out false positives from its alerts, Motive relies on human review. This step can add hours or even days to the process in extreme cases.

All Netradyne Driver•i devices offer high-definition 1080p video at 30 frames per second (FPS) from the driver-facing and road-facing cameras. Netradyne provides crystal-clear license plate capture capabilities and delivers superior low-light performance for litigation-grade evidence under virtually any driving conditions.

Although Motive’s cameras offer high resolutions, their ultra-wide angle and low pixel density can cause “fisheye” distortion issues at the edges of images.

Netradyne rates all drivers using GreenZone™ Scoring, the industry's first driver score that tracks both safe and risky driving behaviors. There is a proven correlation between a driver's GreenZone Score and their collision rate. Data shows that a 50-point increase in GreenZone Score equates to 13-15% decrease in collision rates.  

Motive offers a Safety Score for each driver, but this score is based mostly on unsafe driving behaviors. To generate the score, Motive uses only dashcams and telematics data, which means scores lack AI insights. Because managers can adjust the weight of each unsafe behavior, scores lack any objective connection to accident reduction.

DriverStars are automatically awarded for actions that mitigate unsafe driving situations. Drivers earn DriverStars for safe driving behaviors such as maintaining a safe following distance, obeying stop signs, and complying with speed limits. In-cab kudos help reinforce safe driving behavior. 

Although Motive focuses on tracking and recognizing unsafe driving behavior, the system has begun to offer basic features for recognizing safe driving. But Motive lacks a built-in system for rewarding continued safe performance and motivating improvement.

Netradyne’s driver self-coaching provides real-time, in-cab feedback and post-trip coaching through the Driver•i mobile app. AI-driven voice alerts and visual cues notify drivers of risky behaviors. After trips, drivers can review event footage and performance insights in the app. Positive reinforcement motivates safer habits. For manager-led coaching, Netradyne offers AI-driven tools to prioritize sessions based on real-time performance data.

With Motive, drivers can review video from flagged events but not from all their driving, which means some events may lack full context for self-coaching. Although Motive does offer some recognition for safe driving, its self-coaching capabilities do not revolve around positive reinforcement. Manager-led coaching lacks the full view of positive and negative behaviors to ensure a balanced approach. Manager-driver communication is mostly limited to messaging in an app.

Netradyne continuously captures driving behavior, automatically identifying and categorizing risk. The system provides only the relevant footage for each incident, saving your fleet managers hours of review time.

Motive depends on human reviewers to verify alerts. This means confirmation of AI-generated alerts may not come for 10 minutes or more after the fact.

Netradyne identifies vehicles, pedestrians, lane markings, road conditions and over 100 types of signs in real time. On-device processing enables proactive driver alerts for potential hazards. Its high-definition, 120dB HDR video enhances object recognition accuracy, even in complex driving environments and varying lighting conditions. Netradyne also offers sophisticated object detection for road signs.

Motive can detect stop signs and speed limit signs but offers limited sign recognition beyond that. As a result, its alerts may lack full context. Although Motive’s driver-facing camera provides infrared illumination for low-light situations, its road-facing camera is not built for low-light performance. Motive cameras cannot read license plates.

Netradyne’s “standard” drowsy driving detection provides detailed tracking of head movements and eye indicators to flag many subtle signs of driver drowsiness. The addition of the award-winning Driver Monitoring System (DMS) sensor further increases the level of detection, even through most sunglasses. DMS reviews dynamic features, including raised eyebrows and eyelid status; movement indicators, such as drooping eyes, slow blinking, and closed eyes; and head movements, such as nodding and head tilting.

Lacking DMS technology, Motive relies on AI alerts only from their primary device, which cannot detect drowsy driving with the same level of granularity. Motive’s detection capabilities are limited to yawning, eyes closed, and distraction, which means it may miss many of the earlier signs of drowsy driving.

Netradyne’s compound alert capability enhances risk assessment by analyzing multiple risky behaviors occurring simultaneously to identify higher-severity events. This layered analysis helps fleet managers distinguish between isolated infractions and truly dangerous driving patterns. Because this processing happens in real time on the device, high-risk situations can be flagged immediately.

Although Motive can recognize simultaneous risky driving behaviors, it delivers a separate alert for each behavior and doesn’t recognize the combination as a higher-risk scenario. As a result, managers may miss opportunities to intervene in the most dangerous situations.

Netradyne provides full 360-degree visibility right out of the box. Netradyne’s flagship Driver•i D-450 model is the only one in the industry to feature four camera views in one convenient device. Extended views with up to four additional cameras are available with the Driver•i D-Hub for a total of eight camera views. 

With Motive, 360-degree visibility is only possible if you pair the Motive AI Dashcam with the Motive AI Omnicam. A vehicle gateway is also needed, meaning that there are three separate pieces of hardware to install and maintain to get any side or rear facing views.

GreenZone Scores, earned DriverStars, and DriverStar streaks encourage friendly competition among drivers. GreenZone Scores and the driver’s peer ranking appear automatically in the Driver•i app, and they can see any time how good and poor driving affects their scores. The GreenZone Score has a direct correlation with the projected collision rate per million miles. Managers can easily implement rewards programs and incentives for top performers and most improved drivers.

Motive ranks a fleet’s drivers based on just 15 unsafe and positive driving behaviors. Because Motive doesn’t capture and analyze 100 percent of driving time, it can’t provide a score based on a comprehensive analysis of a driver’s performance.

Netradyne enables privacy modes automatically by using sensors. For example, they can disable the inward-facing camera when a vehicle is stationary, or the ignition is turned off. Recording will only turn back on when the vehicle begins moving or goes above a certain speed. Managers can set privacy modes on a granular level for different drivers or teams. The system can blur faces and license plates, and access to video footage is tightly controlled.

Motive’s privacy settings aren’t camera-controlled. The driver-facing camera will disable after the vehicle has been stationary or the ignition has been off for three minutes.