Our guide can help young drivers decide whether telematics insurance is right for them
Yes. In fact, there’s a good chance you’ll spend far longer checking out your driving data than we will. Your data is only flagged to us if you’re driving dangerously, but you can check your driving stats anytime.
All your driving data is stored in the Marmalade Insurance app which you will have downloaded to pair to the tag. Here you can view all the acceleration, braking, cornering, speed, and phone usage info your telematics tag has collected. You can track how you’ve been driving according to our simple red, amber and green flagging system, giving you total transparency.
It’s a great way to get insight into the way you drive, where you can improve, and where you’re doing really well.
As you drive, the black box tracks your journeys and gives each journey a driving score. It measures things like braking, accelerating and cornering, and gives each journey ‘green’ (3 to 5 stars), ‘amber’ (2 stars), or ‘red’ (1 star) ratings.
We’re passionate about encouraging safe driving behaviours and helping you improve, so we’ll give you feedback if any driving mistakes are flagged during your journey.
With the way that Black Box Insurance works, a driver can earn a personalised premium on the renewal of their policy. The safer they drive, the lower the cost of their car insurance at renewal.
Did you know that Marmalade’s safe drivers get rewarded with our safe driving discount on the renewal of their policy? Find out more about our discounts here.
As a young driver, the price of your car insurance is going to be higher than that of someone with years of driving experience. Whilst this is down to a number of things, such as car model, location and where you keep the car, driving experience is the main factor when it comes to insurance prices.
Experienced drivers can take advantage of their No Claims Bonus, providing them with a nicely reduced premium after each claim-free year – and our black box policies give young drivers the opportunity to make a start on building their own.
No risk to your parent’s No Claims BonusWhen you choose our Named Young Driver Insurance policy, you’re choosing Black Box Insurance with a car-sharing aspect. Our app will detect when the young driver is driving to collect the needed data, and it will know when someone else is driving, so it can’t collect their data.
If the young driver needs to make a claim, the No Claims Bonus of the car’s main driver won’t be affected.
When you choose our Named Young Driver Insurance policy, you’re choosing Black Box Insurance with a car-sharing aspect. Our app will detect when the young driver is driving to collect the needed data, and it will know when someone else is driving, so it can’t collect their data.
If the young driver needs to make a claim, the No Claims Bonus of the car’s main driver won’t be affected.
Young driver as the main driver
Young driver sharing a parent’s car
Discreet telematics tag
GPS Data Transmission
Save money at renewal
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