The app, called Mentor, is designed to encourage safe driving and penalizes Amazon drivers' scores for hard braking, swerving around corners, rapid acceleration, speeding, and phone distraction.

Others have taken to carefully stowing their devices running Mentor in gloveboxes, so the app doesn’t perceive typical on-the-road jostles as attempts to use those devices while driving.

Amazon built its own in-house mobile app called Mentor that it uses to track the ... the job that the Monitor app mistakes for reckless driving, like marking a delivery as completed by picking ...

The eDriving SM study identified the initial risk level of active[1] business drivers using the Mentor ... the app. The study also showed there was a significant decrease in the negative driving ...

According to a Vice report, some Amazon delivery drivers are instructed by their employers to turn off Amazon’s safe driving monitoring app, so they can drive faster and get their deliveries done.

Operating within a highly secure, privacy-first environment, the Mentor app provides drivers with an individual FICO ® Safe Driving Score validated to predict the likelihood of being involved in ...