Traffic Map: Your Dashcam Is Now Making Road Data History
DriveSight now counts every vehicle your dashcam sees and turns it into a living map of how busy roads really are. Each trip gets a vehicles-per-mile score, your history rolls up by day and month, and the new Traffic Map makes roads glow with anonymous, crowd-sourced busyness data from every DriveSight driver.
Navigation apps tell you how slow traffic is moving right now. Nobody tells you how busy a road actually is — how many cars you'll share it with on a Tuesday evening versus a Sunday morning. Starting with v2.6.0, DriveSight does, using hardware you already own: your phone's camera.
How It Works
Your dashcam counts vehicles
DriveSight's on-device AI already detects cars, trucks, buses, and motorcycles while you drive. Now it tracks each vehicle so it's counted exactly once — not once per frame — and tallies distinct vehicles for every tenth of a mile.
Every trip gets a busyness score
Total vehicles divided by distance gives vehicles per mile — a fair density measure whether you drove two miles or two hundred. Trips are bucketed into four levels: Light, Moderate, Heavy, and Very Heavy.
Your history builds automatically
Every trip card shows its busyness chip. The Stats screen rolls your driving up by day and by month, so you can literally watch your route's traffic patterns emerge over time.
Roads glow on the Traffic Map
The map (formerly the wildlife heatmap) now draws your own routes as colored lines and blends in anonymous data from every DriveSight driver as a glowing road layer. Pan anywhere to see how busy roads are where you're headed.
Anonymous By Design
The Traffic Map was built privacy-first. Everyone sees the road data; nobody sees whose it is.
No identity attached
Shared records contain only a location, a vehicles-per-mile number, and a timestamp. No account ID, device ID, or trip ID — the server rejects anything more.
Home & work stay private
Road segments near where your trips start and end are never uploaded. Where you live and park stays on your phone.
No route reconstruction
Segments are coarsened to a ~110 m grid and uploaded in random order, so individual journeys can't be pieced back together.
Your data stays yours
Your full-detail trips, routes, and history live only on your device. You always see your own data; the community only sees the roads.
Why Vehicles Per Mile?
A raw car count would make every long highway drive look "busy" and every short school run look quiet. Dividing by distance normalizes it: 40 vehicles over 2 miles of stop-and-go city driving scores 20 veh/mi (Heavy), while 40 vehicles spread over 30 highway miles scores 1.3 veh/mi (Light). That's the difference you actually feel behind the wheel.
Get On the Map
Update to DriveSight v2.6.0, drive with vehicle detection on, and your first trip starts building your road history — and quietly making every DriveSight driver's map a little smarter.
Every drive makes the map better
Free download. No account needed. Anonymous by design.
Get DriveSight on Google PlayFrequently Asked Questions
Is this live traffic like a navigation app?
No — it's something navigation apps don't have. Instead of current speed, the Traffic Map shows measured road busyness: how many vehicles dashcams actually saw per mile, built up over days and months of real driving.
Does it work if I'm the first DriveSight driver in my area?
Yes. Your own routes draw immediately from your local data. The community layer fills in as more drivers cover your region.
Does counting vehicles use extra battery?
No extra cost — it reuses the vehicle detections DriveSight's AI is already making for the driving overlay. The counting itself is a rounding error.
Can I opt out of the community layer?
The community layer can be toggled off on the map, and contribution only happens when vehicle detection is enabled during a trip.