Hey guys,

Earlier this week I came across this post looking for methods of making money while driving. The post didn't get very many relevant responses, so today's post is going to be about a new app called HyperDrive.

Introducing HyperDrive

If any of you remember an app called Mileup, HyperDrive is pretty similar.

HyperDrive is an app that pays you for the trips you take, and rewards you for being a safe driver. The app is offered by ConnectedTravel.

The concept is actually really easy to explain, but the app packs some really useful bonus features that makes the app way better than Mileup (Mileup is dead, FYI, you can read more about it here.

Here's how it works:

You'll begin tracking your location with the app.
The app will automatically detect that you're driving.
The app will begin tracking your ride, making notes along your route where you're using your phone, speeding, or driving aggressively.
Once you end your ride you'll earn points for the distance traveled.

You'll notice when you sign up that the app's sweepstakes are only available in San Diego County, CA, and Clark County, NV. When signing up it warns you about this, which might worry you that it means the app only works in those locations, but that's fortunately not the case. If you live in those counties, though, you will be able to enter into a weekly drawing for $1000. According to the official rules, they are coming to an end shortly, with the last promotional periods being in June. If you're in these locations your odds of winning $1000 is probably higher than you might think, since this app only reached the 1,000 downloads milestone on Google Play. You can read more about those sweepstakes here and here, respectively.

But most of the people reading this post don't care about the sweepstakes and just want to learn how to make money while driving.

Here are all of the different ways you can earn from this app:

Rides (distance traveled/time traveled(?)
Quests/Challenges
Bonus Trunk
Leaderboards

So let's get into it.

1. Rides

From rides alone, there's clearly an algorithm for earnings. As your trips get longer, you'll earn less points per distance traveled.

1000 Points = $5, 2 points = $0.01.

Here's some data from some trips that I took:

Distance	Length	Points Earned
66.2 Miles	1h, 10min	27 Points
61.4 Miles	57 min	24 Points
98 Miles	2h, 15 min	30 Points
4.9 Miles	10 min	1 Point
20.3 Miles	36 min	5 Points
2 Miles	7 min	0 Points

These are just some of my datapoints. I've taken about 30 rides since I've started using the app. If you'd like to use this data to try and come up with the algorithm, go for it.

Here's a sample case. Let's say you're Joe, and you drive 60 miles to work, about an hour long ride. From this trip you'll probably earn 22 points (conservative estimation). Each day you'll earn 44 points from driving to work, and you work M-F, so 220 points per week from your trips to work. Each week you have this app installed, if you're Joe, you will find yourself making $1.10/week, and that's assuming you have no quests/challenges that would add bonuses.

However, if you're someone who maybe is a student who drives 2 miles to school each day, it looks like you won't make anything from your rides. It really is case-by-case for rides.

2. Quests/Challenges

You'll notice frequently in the app that there will be different challenges that you can participate in. Once you complete a challenge, another one will appear to replace the last one. Right now I have two challenges. I have a, "No Speeding Challenge" and a "Trips Challenge." Basically the trips one give me 10 points after I take 5 trips (easy!) And the speeding challenge will give me 7 points if I drive 15 miles in a row without speeding. I'm thinking about quitting that challenge because there's no way in hell I'll ever complete it.

Most of the challenges I have done are just trips challenges, with occasional challenges (earlier on) to help teach you about the features of the app.

Here are some screenshots of what the challenges look like.

Most of the challenges are just bonuses for good drivers, but otherwise actually challenges that should help make you a better, safer driver if you actually find them challenging.

3. Leaderboards

Leaderboards are interesting. Basically they'll add a competition in the app from time to time where the best performers in the challenge category will receive a prize. There's currently a leaderboard for the top 20 "no phone handlers." Each trip you take you'll get a score from 0-100 on how well you did with not using your phone. It looks like almost everyone in the top 20 has a 99.9 or 100, and prizes range from 300-3000 points. I personally find this leaderboard style to be weird, especially as the app grows... when you're scoring people on a 0-100 scale it seems to me like the top people will all have near or exactly 100.0 scores. It's not really something easy to measure for winners. But regardless I like the idea. Most people probably won't win anything from leaderboards in its current state, especially with a growing user base.

4. Bonus Trunk

The Bonus Trunk is basically just the 'daily bonus' for HyperDrive. Every 24 hours you can open the bonus trunk and pick one of three suitcases. You'll likely win anywhere from 5-25 points. The values range wildly, but I don't think I've ever gotten less than 5 on a free round.

I don't know why anyone would want to, but you can also play the bonus trunk for 5 points. It's basically gambling. I played it once and won 2 points, and then the price increased to 10 points. I'm guessing the price continues to go up, but it's kinda dumb to play the bonus trunk if I'm being honest. Maybe if you're at 999 points and you just want to reach the cash out minimum.

5. Other

There are other small ways to earn on the app that just couldn't get its own category. When you sign up you'll earn 600 points, plus 40 points for adding your contact information, plus 25 for an easy challenge, and another 25 for taking a vehicle survey. In total I would consider it a 690 sign up bonus (plus you can play bonus trunk right away), for likely an ~$3.50 sign up bonus. It will make reaching the first $5 very easy.

In addition to that, there have been multiple cases where they have just given away free points. I'm not totally sure why, but sometimes they'll be like 'ur cool here's points +50 nice'. It's like getting a free entree from Chick-Fil-A "just cause". Except I'd rather have Chick-Fil-A.

How Cashouts Work

Ah, now we're getting to the good part... Actually getting paid!

Rewards in this app are insanely easy. As of right now you can cash out a minimum of 1,000 points for a $5 gift card. Unfortunately there is no PayPal option available. Just gift cards. However, if you look at their site they do have this image, which makes it seem like they might be adding local offers down the road. I'm down for some local offers, but the day this app removes gift cards will be the day this app dies. The good news is that as of right now the gift cards have a lot of stock available, and I don't see it going away too fast too soon.

So, here are the gift cards you can choose from:

Dominos, Walmart, The Home Depot, Regal, Target, TJMaxx, Olive Garden, Sephora, Papa John's, Chili's, GameStop, Barnes & Noble, Amazon, CVS, Petco, IHOP, Buffalo Wild Wings, Panera, Groupon, Jiffy Lube, Gap, Applebees, AMC, Starbucks, The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf.

They have most of the good brands available.

All gift cards are issued instantly, powered by Tango.

Other Useful Features

I'll be honest, this app is amazing. I'm someone who would consider themselves a good driver... but this app has really proven me wrong with statistics. I have actually found myself reading my trip breakdowns and I'm constantly surprised with how objectively bad of a driver I am. I'm speeding on average over 70% of the time, and apparently I'm almost always bad with my breaks, and I'm usually around a 60-70 for phone handling. After each ride they'll provide you with a map that shows you each time you break a rule (speeding, phone handling, or not smooth driving), and oh boy does that thing light up. You really don't think about how often you use your phone until you see a map of your trip and you see many little letter Ps pop up all over the place. If you'd like to see what data I'm talking about, you can check out the statistics from one of my trips here. Please don't judge my driving.

I'm not saying I would use this app if it didn't pay me, but the value I have personally been getting out of this app really is surprising to me. Sure, motivate me with a couple gift cards here and there, but it really has been working at making me a better driver. I got my first 100 in phone handling yesterday :) I mean it was a 3 mile trip but still I'm happy about that.

Conclusion

This app is great. Truly. I have found this app to be one of the most useful beermoney apps I have installed, and the fact that it's passive and I get paid for having it run, althewhile it's helping me become a better driver... I don't know how much better it can get! It does take a long time for the average person to reach the $5 minimum, but the value you get out of the app is really great.

Download HyperDrive (iOS](https://itunes.apple.com/app/id1218987783) | Android

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