I lost my keys the other day which is awesome. I think they’re in a toy chest somewhere courtesy of my daughter.
So today after we rolled out a new improved Driver-to-Vehicle mapping product, I grabbed a new DriverID at work and put it on my (new) keychain.
I forgot to “log in” — we do however support mandatory login using a really obnoxious buzzer which goes off after 30 seconds until you press the driver ID button to the reader.
So after dinner, I decided to test everything for myself. Since I’m not the only person who will lose a DriverID or their keys, we made sure to make it easy to give out & assign new driverID’s.
After my drive, I logged in and launched the right administrative screen where we see 3 unassigned driverID buttons — one has been used in my car (Rob 4000) and has today’s date and a recent time.
Assign a new DriverID button within GPS Insight
So I choose my previously defined Driver record with the drop-down:
Assign a new DriverID button within GPS Insight
So then we run an activity detail report for my vehicle for today to see the driverID switch. My “wife’s” driverID had been recently assigned to my car, so the change was very apparent. (I quote “wife” not because she’s not real, but she doesn’t really use a driverID — she might be more colorful than some of our customers’ drivers about telling me where to put my driverID if I asked her to use one…)
Run a GPS Insight GPS Tracking report to show a new driver assignment
So here’s the switch — exactly when I took the car for a quick spin around the neighborhood:
Run a GPS Insight GPS Tracking report to show a new driver assignment
And here is my path with my name now in the Driver field within the information bubble:
New DriverID assigned to my vehicle after losing my keys
After working diligently lately, we’ve streamlined this process as much as possible for as many use case/problem cases (e.g. drivers losing their keys…) as possible, and it’s trivial to reassign a new driverID to a driver now.
I wish we tracked keys though…
[Side note, I found them today, 1/24/10, finally, outside by the hose, rusted after a couple weeks of sitting out in the rain, but the car door openers still work...]
For more GPS Insight features, please see our GPS Vehicle Tracking Features page.
Rob.