A little friendly perspective

An adult pilot, with a private starting point

Community is an optional adult friends pilot. The steps below apply when Community is enabled for your account; otherwise the page shows Coming soon. The first pilot is for approved Real accounts aged 18 or older. Teen accounts keep their private driving features; creating an account does not grant permission to share activity.

Join and build your circle

1. Open Community and review the separate participation choice. Joining is optional.
2. Choose whether accepted friends may also see your driver name. Your username is the default; your email and home location are not a social profile.
3. Create a temporary connection code and give it directly to someone you know, or enter a code they gave you. Driver OS does not send an invitation for you.
4. Review and accept a request to become friends. Both drivers must agree before the connection is mutual.

A driver who uses your code, or receives your request, can see your username before acceptance. There is no searchable member directory in this pilot. Creating a code is not permission to share timing statistics.

A one-way founder welcome

When available, Your circle includes Zoltan · Driver OS founder as a welcome entry, separate from your friends. It does not join Community for you, create a mutual friendship, or share your profile, sessions or activity with the founder. Friend requests and sharing choices remain separate.

Only founder content explicitly published for Community belongs in this entry. There is currently no all-Community publication source, so the welcome honestly shows no published updates; private or friend-only results are never substituted.

Choose Remove to permanently dismiss the welcome for this account. The saved choice applies across devices and survives leaving and rejoining Community. A failed save asks you to reload and confirm the server state. Download Community data includes your own founder-welcome removal choice when the service is available, alongside the existing export.

The Privacy Notice includes the founder welcome supplement dated October 6, 2026. Removing the welcome saves an account preference and removal time, included in your Community export, that remain until your account is erased.

Encouragement without messages

Accepted friends can choose from the fixed kudos: Cheers, Well done and Keep going. There are no free-text posts, comments or direct messages. Kudos are encouragement from a friend, not verification of a result or an earned award.

Choose statistics separately

Joining the circle does not enable statistics sharing. Review its separate consent, choose the venues you want to share and choose the offered categories, such as pace, progress or personal milestones.

Sharing enabled confirms that your permission is saved. You do not need to tick the consent box again when reopening the page. Editing venues or metrics shows Unsaved changes and asks you to confirm the updated choices before saving. Until the save succeeds, your previous choices remain active.

An empty chart does not turn sharing off. Each chart explains the evidence it needs. Your recorded venue score and session milestone can appear even when lap-based charts need more sessions or months.

Only mutually accepted, eligible friends can see the summaries you allow. Private notes, raw lap and session records, exact visit times, email, home location, sensor recordings and media are not shared by these summaries. Your home-K1 preference does not prove attendance or automatically select history for sharing.

Your GP and venue observations

Community opens with same-day comparisons, then Recent kart pace and When laps clicked. Your circle contains accepted friends, comparison selection and connection codes. Privacy shows saved choices and the active sharing preview. Empty and incomplete states show the evidence needed, without invented results.

GP comparisons require a new, separate permission to share eligible session dates, track context, best laps and retained averages with accepted friends who also opt in. Existing statistics consent never enables this permission. Raw laps and exact session times remain private. These are same-day recorded comparisons, not official GP standings or adjusted ability.

Venue contributions are another separate choice. Only opted-in members' own results enter anonymous kart and time-of-day samples; imported opponents never enter Community. Each displayed group needs at least five drivers and ten sessions in matching context during the previous completed calendar month. The representative value is the median of each driver's median session retained average, giving drivers equal weight. Kart numbers belong to the recorded fleet and month, and conditions may differ.

Saving one permission preserves the others. Visiting these pages, installing an update or joining Community never enables the new permissions. Turning one off stops future reads from including its evidence. Existing recorded progress and statistics remain available below the main comparison.

Read comparisons in the right context

Choose a recorded venue to see its K1 score and session milestone, then a recorded track group for pace and monthly progress. K1 scores and the ten-session milestone do not require lap timing or a track revision.

Lap summaries keep different recorded tracks, revisions, classes, purposes, event formats and rental fleets separate. Some K1 results do not supply a track revision, class or event format. These can form an explicitly labeled unknown group; unknown values never match a known value. Matching recorded fields does not prove equal class, configuration, track conditions or kart performance. Being an adult Community member does not establish the class of a recorded session.

Gray or unavailable values can mean the category is private, the context does not match, or there is too little qualifying evidence. They are not zero scores and do not mean a friend is slower. Read the stated reason.

How qualifying statistics and personal milestones are calculated

The window is the current calendar month plus the previous 23 months. For lap-based charts and milestones, only retained competitive laps count. A session needs at least 5 such laps; a track group needs at least 3 qualifying sessions. Venue scores and session-count milestones have their own rules below.

• Recorded best: the lowest retained lap in that exact context and window. It is not a lifetime record or an official venue record.
• Representative pace: the median of the qualifying sessions' mean lap times. Variation is the median of their population standard deviations.
• Monthly progress: a month needs at least 3 qualifying sessions. A trend needs at least 2 qualifying months; monthly pace is the median of session means.
• Improvement milestone: the last qualifying month's pace is at least 0.5 seconds quicker than the first qualifying month's pace in the same context.
• Consistency milestone: at least 3 qualifying sessions, with every qualifying session's population standard deviation at or below 0.2 seconds. The displayed milestone value is the largest of those session deviations.
• Recorded K1 score: the latest recorded US K1RS score at the selected venue, compared only within the same system and score year. The recorded session date and time determine order, not when a result was edited. Ambiguous conflicting scores are unavailable. No lap minimum is required.
• Ten-session milestone: at least 10 recorded sessions at that venue in the window. This count does not require retained laps or track metadata.

These are personal milestones calculated from recorded history, which can change when its evidence changes. They are not official trophies, verified race wins or provider awards. No award date or precise visit schedule is shared.

Change your mind at any time

Turn off a category or remove a venue to stop sharing those summaries. Turning off statistics sharing does not require leaving your circle.

Remove ends a connection. Block also prevents new requests and kudos between you. Leave Community ends participation, connections and kudos; your private driving history stays with your account. Rejoining does not restore old friendships, and unblocking does not send a new request.

Use Download Community data in Privacy for your own Community choices and activity records. The download is created only when you request it and does not include friends' private histories or connection-code secrets.

Failed connection-request fingerprints are kept for 7 days; operation records and closed or expired connections have a 30-day retention window. Daily maintenance removes eligible records. Active connections, blocks and consent records remain as described in the Privacy Notice.

Revocation and data-export controls remain available when sharing is turned off. Leaving is not the same as deleting every account or Community record. Use Privacy & account for the separate account-data and deletion support route.

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Private Demo practice

In the focused Demo experience, eligible adults can try the same Community controls with two fictional friends and a pending fictional request. The page identifies the simulation. Comparisons use invented records; sharing-off and sparse-data states explain what is unavailable. Connections, fixed kudos and sharing choices stay inside your own Demo account. They never reach real members, send notifications or create genuine consent grants. Teens cannot bypass the adult Community boundary by using Demo. Demo Community export is unavailable.

The Community tab opens first. Your circle and Privacy remain available alongside it. This navigation change does not join Community or change any sharing permission.