Samsung may be preparing a new AI-powered driving feature for One UI 9, and bro, this one sounds both useful and slightly kaypoh.
According to a leaked build of Samsung’s upcoming Android 17-based One UI 9 update, the company is working on a new app called Driving Insights. The idea is simple: your Samsung phone watches how you drive, studies the data, then gives you weekly feedback on your habits.
On paper, it sounds like a digital driving coach. In real life, especially on Malaysian roads, it might feel like having an AI backseat driver judging your Federal Highway braking style.
What Driving Insights Actually Does
Based on code found in the leaked One UI 9 build, Driving Insights appears to use your phone’s sensors and precise location data to understand your driving patterns. It can reportedly look at things like speed, braking behaviour, acceleration, turning style, distance travelled, and overall trip history.
The app may also be able to start automatically when your phone connects to your car’s Bluetooth. That makes sense for daily drivers, because nobody wants to manually open an app every time they masuk kereta.
Samsung’s early app text suggests the goal is to help users see habits and patterns at a glance, then build better driving habits over time. There are also filters for reviewing drives by time and distance, which could be handy if you want to compare your weekday commute versus a long balik kampung run.
Weekly AI Reports Through Now Brief
The interesting bit is the weekly summary. Driving Insights seems designed to generate AI-written feedback about your driving style, with reports expected to appear inside Samsung’s Now Brief.
Examples found in the leaked app include summaries describing drivers as defensive, practical, balanced, dynamic, long-distance focused, or spirited. The AI may tell you to keep your speed and steering smoother, take breaks during long drives, or watch your braking and acceleration.
That could be genuinely useful for some Malaysians. If you drive daily through KL traffic, do interstate trips, or spend hours in the car for work, seeing your driving patterns over time might help you spot bad habits. Hard braking every morning? Maybe you are tailgating too much. Long drives without breaks? That is a real safety concern.
But Do We Trust AI With Driving Advice?
Here is where things get tricky. Driving is not like asking AI to summarise your notes or suggest a playlist. Bad advice on the road can have serious consequences.
The leaked examples also show how soft AI feedback can be. A report calling someone’s style spirited while also telling them to smooth out acceleration and braking sounds like a polite way of saying: bro, you might be driving too aggressively.
For SEA roads, that matters. Traffic behaviour here can be chaotic, from motorbikes lane-splitting to sudden rain, potholes, double-parked cars, and drivers who treat signal lights like optional DLC. An AI summary based on phone sensors may not understand the full context of why you braked hard or swerved.
Privacy is another obvious question. The app reportedly uses precise location data, so Samsung will need to be very clear about what is processed on-device, what is stored, and how users can control it.
When Will One UI 9 Arrive?
One UI 9 is expected to launch this summer, likely debuting with Samsung’s next-generation foldables. One UI 8.5 has not even reached many Samsung devices yet, so Malaysian users probably should not expect this feature on every Galaxy phone immediately.
Still, Driving Insights is worth watching. If Samsung handles the privacy side properly and keeps the advice sensible, it could become a useful safety tool. If not, it may just be another AI feature that sounds clever in a keynote but annoying during actual daily driving.
Source: Android Authority