Rate the PLATE official news

A big thank you to all the users who continue to share our vision and supply us with so many diverse, wonderful ideas.

In the Rate the PLATE engine room, a lot of your ideas are in progress right now. Its exciting for us, because each time we push out some new features, the feedback is really valuable. Its a process of continuous improvement.

Keep ‘em comin’

Best Regards

Rate the PLATE Team.

As the data grows, we are finding some extremely useful and interesting numbers.

As of today, 12.3% of driving “incidents” occur between 5 and 6 pm. The next most active window is between 8 and 9am, trailing with 11%. This is exactly what we predicted we would see before creating Rate the PLATE - peak hour tension. People commuting to and from work, feeling the pressure.

The number of ratings that we have collected since last October is now becoming enormous and continues to grow. This allows us to hold a lot of faith and reliability in these figures that bubble to the top. It will be interesting over time to watch the figures further average out.

How’s your driving?

Best Regards

Rate the PLATE Team.

Today we launched a minor variation on the core Ratings system - the ability to actually “Resolve” incidents.

Although simple today, this is a feature that is going to evolve substantially over the coming weeks. This initial version is a very simple, cut down tool allowing Members to “resolve” an incident if they feel that both parties have reached an appropriate understanding through calm, non-violent communication. If you are in this boat, first of all, thanks for helping make a difference on our roads. Secondly, you will find access to this feature in the “my Ratings” area.

In the future, we are going to see this feature enhanced considerably, so that it brings together both parties a lot more. This is one of the key differences that we see between Rate the PLATE and say your typical blog/forum text-only site. Rate the PLATE is not simply a place where users record their experiences, its an interactive tool that can be used to make a real difference out in the real world. Its an application that you can use to solve problems.

As always, your feedback on this new feature is greatly valued.

Best Regards

Rate the PLATE Team.