Find Me SPOT vs. the EatSleepRIDE Motorcycle GPS app

Motorcycle Safety in Your Pocket for Less Than $15 Per Year

If you get into a motorcycle accident, you want help to arrive fast. With the EatSleepRIDE app, a crash is detected automatically and notifications are sent to your pre-set contacts with your last known geographical location.

Motorcycle riders are more vulnerable on the road than cars. We built the EatSleepRIDE app to help riders and their loved ones feel secure that should anything go wrong on the road, help is a notification away.

What's the difference between FIND ME SPOT Satellite GPS Messenger and the EatSleepRIDE app?

Spot operates on the Iridium satellite-based transmission system and requires the purchase of additional hardware costing about US$130. The rider needs to actively "check-in" to continue tracking. To activate emergency notifications, the rider must actively press a button and request help. The annual subscription cost is about US$100 per year in addition to the hardware.

The EatSleepRIDE app uses readily available GPS systems to record your ride and automatically detect a crash and send help when you need it. No additional hardware is required, only access to a cellular network and data connectivity is required.

Manually send SOS notifications or have the software do the work for me?

With the EatSleepRIDE app and CRASHLIGHT, the rider doesn't need to take any action in the event of a crash. CRASHLIGHT automatically detects a crash and alerts your safety team with emergency information and your last known location.

If you're in an area with weak cellular reception, CRASHLIGHT continuously retries to access the network until it successfully notifies your pre-set contacts.

With Spot, if you need help you must manually request it, meaning you need to be conscious. You also need direct line of sight to the sky and press a button to alert your contacts and emergency services.

Buy New Hardware Or Use A Smartphone You Already Own?

The EatSleepRIDE app and CRASHLIGHT run on your smartphone leveraging software built-in to the iPhone and Android platforms. No additional hardware is required.

Spot requires you to buy a special device from which your notifications and location detection is operated from, in addition to the annual subscription fee.

The EatSleepRIDE app is free to download. CRASHLIGHT:registered: is a premium in-app purchase of US$14.99 per year. The subscription will not renew automatically at the end of the year.

Which Tool Is Better Bang for Your Buck?

If you're motorcycle touring and doing most of your riding on the road within GPS and cellular/WiFi network range, the EatSleepRIDE app offers you everything you need.

If you're doing off-road adventure riding in areas outside of GPS range with no cellular networks available, you may be better off with Spot at $100+ for the hardware and $100+ per year for the subscription.

How do I know CRASHLIGHT works?

Since inception, the EatSleepRIDE team has worked closely with University of Toronto mechanical and physical engineers and esteemed government and private sector crash scene scientists to continue to develop the crash detection technology. It works.

With every saved ride, motorcyclists are contributing to the ongoing development of the safety technology, we work with riders in 10 countries to extensively map normal motorcycle riding conditions against all types of motorcycle crashes including single vehicle, low-side and high-side as well as multi-vehicle crashes.

Authors of the most influential and comprehensive motorcycle crash study of the 20th century, the Hurt Report, where consulted to create reliable physical world crash testing for CRASHLIGHT and we continue to conduct physical crash tests.

The multi-signal crash detection technology means CRASHLIGHT will NOT be activated when the rider drops their phone or comes to a hard stop. Although a false detection may occur, we've worked very carefully to reduce this possibility.

So which one is right for you?

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