Become a Mentor: Guiding New Drivers

Introduction

As you gain experience with LETSTOP, your knowledge becomes valuable to others. New drivers often feel unsure about permissions, scoring, and how to get the most from the app. By acting as a mentor, you help them avoid common mistakes, grow faster, and contribute to safer roads in your community.

Why Mentorship Matters

Safe driving is easier to maintain when you are not doing it alone. A mentor gives new users simple starting points instead of leaving them to figure everything out through trial and error.

New drivers build good habits earlier

You reinforce your own habits by teaching them

The overall LETSTOP community becomes stronger and more engaged

If you also use referrals, mentorship naturally supports the people you invite, turning your network into a group that progresses together.

Step 1: Help Them Set Up Correctly

The first barrier for new users is technical. You can guide them through the essential setup steps to ensure their early drives are detected and scored properly.

Walk them through granting Location, Motion, and required permissions

Explain why Always location is important for background tracking

Help them enable GPS and high accuracy mode

Show where to find key settings in the LETSTOP app, such as tracking options

A few minutes of guided setup can prevent many missed drives and early frustrations.

Step 2: Explain Scoring in Simple Terms

Many new users ask the same question: Why did I get this score. As a mentor, you can simplify the explanation.

Scores mainly reflect how often they touch their phone during a drive

Long enough trips with fewer touches mean higher scores

Short drives may show as too short and not give credits

Encourage them to review the ride summary after each trip and look for clusters of touches, not just the final number.

Step 3: Share Practical Driving Tips

Real world examples are more useful than abstract advice. Share what works for you during daily driving.

Keep the phone on a stable mount and out of your hands

Set navigation and audio before moving

Use Do Not Disturb while driving to reduce the temptation to check notifications

If something feels urgent, pull over and park before interacting

You can also point them to educational content inside the app if it is available, so they have a place to revisit tips in their own time.

Step 4: Set Realistic Early Goals

New drivers sometimes focus too heavily on achieving perfect scores immediately. As a mentor, your role is to help them aim for progress, not perfection.

Suggest that they start with a simple goal like One drive per day with no unnecessary touches

Help them celebrate improvements in weekly average score, not just single results

Encourage them to focus on building habits during their most common route, such as the commute

Small, reachable goals reduce pressure and create a positive relationship with the app.

Step 5: Use Referral Features Responsibly

If you invite drivers using LETSTOP's referral system, mentorship adds value to that relationship.

Explain clearly how both of you benefit from the referral

Offer to check their first ride summary and answer questions

Encourage safe behavior first and rewards second

This keeps the focus on road safety and long term engagement, not only on short term bonuses.

Step 6: Lead by Example

The strongest message you can send as a mentor is your own behavior.

Share screenshots of your own ride summaries and how you improved over time

Talk honestly about mistakes you made and how you corrected them

Show them that consistency, not perfection, is what the app rewards

New users learn faster when they see that even advanced drivers went through the same learning curve.

Growing a Safer Driving Circle

By becoming a mentor, you expand LETSTOP beyond a single user app. It becomes a shared project where friends, family, or colleagues support each other, compare progress, and move toward safer, less distracted driving together. Your guidance can be the difference between someone giving up after a confusing first week and someone sticking with it long enough to see real change.