Join early access and finish the essentials
Verify your account, choose a permanent username and pick your home K1. You can connect results later.
Before you start
Driver OS is in early access. Use the access or invitation path offered to you, then verify your email. Signing in and approval are separate steps: a pending account does not become approved by repeating setup.
Self-service accounts are for people 13 or older. Teens need the required guardian permission and acknowledgements. The Terms and Privacy steps are part of account eligibility; optional sensor choices are separate.
If you received an invitation card
When card invitations are enabled, open the registration address printed on the card and choose Join with an invitation. Enter the card code in the form, along with your email and signup details. Keep the code private; it never belongs in a link. Verify your email to claim the card for one Real account, then finish setup.
Cards stay pending until claimed or revoked. The temporary signup reservation can expire. If you verify later or move to another device, sign in with the same email and choose Resume with a card on the access-recovery screen. Enter the same card; you do not need to choose another username. A card cannot convert an existing Demo, blocked or named-invitation account.
The owner can see which account claimed a card and receives a completion email after verified setup. Cards do not automatically enable Community sharing, Feedback, AI access or sensor features.
When this beta feature is available, Owner → Accounts → Registration delivery status shows completion and email counts. Use Refresh status for a fresh check. Accepted means the email provider received the request; Delivered requires its delivery confirmation. An unavailable status is not confirmation that processing succeeded.
Four short steps
- Profile: enter your driver name and choose your username. Your username is permanent; check it before saving.
- Home K1: search for your usual venue and select the correct location. This is a preference, not evidence of where you have raced.
- Connect: set up your private results address and follow the instructions for your email provider, or continue and do it later.
- First result: check for a result, then finish setup. You can finish while waiting or before you have raced.
A new account starts with its own history. Driver OS does not fill it with someone else's results.
After setup
Use your account menu → Profile to edit your driver name or home K1. Use Settings → Connections for result emails. Completed setup does not need to be repeated to change these choices.
If a save fails, read the message before leaving. A partial save may keep one change while another needs retrying; an error is not confirmation that everything saved.
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If you were invited to Demo
Your invitation selects Demo or Real; there is no public Demo signup switch. Complete genuine email verification and required identity/legal steps. A valid Demo invitation does not need a second approval.
In the focused Demo experience, Demo remains visible and the Nashville records are fictional. Connect and first-result recognition are simulations. demo-results@example.invalid is a non-deliverable example: do not configure forwarding or send email to it. Supported notes, kart numbers, goals and preferences save privately to your Demo account. Existing testers keep their scenario until the owner explicitly resets it.
Invitation feedback access
The owner can select Feedback enabled while inviting you. If selected, it is available after verified signup without a second manual permission change. This choice defaults off and does not enroll you in Community. The owner can change Feedback access later.
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Set up Driver OS
For an invited Real account, /driver offers Sign in or Join with an invitation, using the newest email link or one-time code. Signup keeps the existing invitation, verified-email, age and required notice checks. Teen accounts require both existing guardian confirmations. A username is chosen once and remains permanent.
First-time setup guides you through driver profile, an explicit home K1, optional email guidance and the first-result review. This path does not ask for a home city. Driver name and home K1 can change later in Profile; your username is displayed as fixed text. The wizard is not offered again after completion. An old setup link opens Profile.
Continue and Finish wait for confirmed saves; errors explain any partial save. Email forwarding can wait. Finishing setup does not create fictional history, enable sensors or request paid AI. Email setup opens within Driver OS and has Back to setup while onboarding is incomplete. Required legal choices are handled in the native account check before racing history becomes available.
Demo Testers retain their separate fictional experience and established setup. No Real history is copied into their accounts.
Before you start
Use an email address you can open on the same phone or computer. Driver OS uses a secure email link and one time code instead of a password. In the invite-only testing flow, the owner must first invite that exact address as a Demo Tester or Real driver. Public interest signup does not grant app access.
Join early access
- Open Driver OS and choose Join with an invitation (or Join early access in the Demo entry).
- Enter the profile details requested on the form and accept the required legal terms.
- Open the newest Driver OS email and use its secure link or one time code.
- Follow the short setup steps after verification. One matching owner invitation is sufficient; an invited tester does not need a second approval after signup.
Sign in to the native iPhone app
In the internal native build, request the email from Driver OS on the iPhone where you want to sign in. Open the newest email on that phone. When the native sign-in service is available, its link returns to Driver OS; a browser may first offer Open Driver OS. The code in the email remains available if the link opens elsewhere or your email app keeps it in a browser.
Finish or recover a recording before signing in. A link requested by a different device or an older request cannot switch the recording account. If the connection drops, keep the app and its saved recordings in place and retry when online.
Open the web app from iPhone
The general web-app button opens Home. Links labeled for Sessions, account settings or a specific Event or session open that destination. When the handoff service is available for your native account, confirm the account shown by Continue as; no new email or code is required. A browser already signed into that account keeps its session. A different account is identified before you choose to switch. The link expires quickly and can be used only once.
If handoff is unavailable, expired or offline, Driver OS offers the ordinary web link. The browser may then need its usual sign-in. This does not sign the native app out. Accounts with additional authentication requirements use normal browser sign-in.
Owner invitations
Invitations and user accounts each show up to 10 entries per page. Use their separate Previous and Next buttons to browse; your unfinished invitation stays in the form.
In Owner → Invitations and access, enter the person's exact email address, select Demo Tester or Real driver, then choose Invite user. New Production invitations open app.kovacslabs.com. Check the delivery status before retrying an uncertain send. One invitation is sufficient; public update subscriptions do not grant app access.
Use Revoke invitation to withdraw an invitation before verified signup. Review the email and access type, then confirm. For an invitation already claimed by an account, use that account's Deactivate access or Deactivate demo access control instead.
A revoked invitation offers Re-invite for the same email and access type. This restores the invitation without sending email; choose Send invitation email afterward when you want to notify the person. If their email is already verified, they can sign in normally without another invitation email.
Under User accounts, the owner can deactivate Demo or Real access while preserving sign-in, profile and records. Restore access is available for deactivated Real drivers. Demo resets remain separate, and these controls never convert Demo data into a Real account. The owner account is protected from access removal.
If an email is already being sent, refresh its delivery status before revoking. An interrupted delivery may require reconciliation; retrying does not start another email. A message already delivered cannot be recalled, but a revoked invitation no longer grants access.
Use Reset demo data to restore a Demo Tester's fictional scenario while keeping completed onboarding. Reset onboarding and demo repeats profile setup. Deactivate demo access stops access and retains the account. Demo accounts cannot be switched to Real from this screen.
Set up your Driver OS
Welcome explains the journal in a few sentences. Choose Continue to start, then use Back whenever you want to review a choice.
- Driver profile: choose the name you want to use for driving and a home city or nearby city. No street address or exact home location is needed. Your unique username is set once; your driver name and city can change later. Required age, Terms, Privacy and parent or guardian choices remain separate and must be complete.
- What do you drive? Choose at least one interest. Rental karting appears first; expand Other driving interests for owned karting, car or motorsport events, and sim racing. Existing selections remain visible. Interests tailor setup and suggestions without hiding history or product areas.
- K1 results: if selected, choose manual forwarding or provider guidance for supported formats. Driver OS receives only the messages you deliberately forward. You can skip this and return to Connections.
- Garage: owned-kart and car interests offer one short vehicle form. Skip it if you want. A vehicle you choose here is added to your existing Garage at Finish. Rental karting does not require a vehicle.
- Discover: optionally select a few directory suggestions near your city. Coverage is limited; a city with no suggestions can still finish setup. Discover remains available later.
- Finish: review the summary and choose Finish setup. A Real journal contains only that driver's evidence. A Demo Tester's fictional pack appears only after this step.
Sensor and AI interest are available through Profile → Your driving choices → Optional setup. They are not separate steps in a new driver's default setup. Existing preferences and unfinished optional-step drafts are preserved. Interest does not enable recording, grant consent or AI access, request analysis, or create a charge.
Continue saves your choices to your account. Unfinished typing and choices are kept for that account in this browser, including when you leave and return later. When revisiting setup from Profile, Close setup returns to Profile and keeps those unfinished changes here; Continue saves them to your account for other devices. If a save fails, your choices stay on screen with a retry message; setup does not silently finish.
Optional steps offer Skip for now. Reopen driving interests in Profile → Your driving choices, and sensor or AI interests under Optional setup. Manage actual forwarding in Connections, consent in Sensor Lab, vehicles in Garage and venue follows in Discover. Changing an interest never deletes history.
Demo Testers keep real verification, username, legal choices and profile details. During setup, forwarding, native recording, vehicle creation and live location providers remain off. After Finish, Demo Connections, Garage and Discover show clearly fictional examples.
Take or replay the short tour
The optional five-step tour introduces Home (current picture and next step), Sessions (individual evidence), Progress (patterns), Coach (an action), and Connections / Quick Kart (results and kart context). It never asks you to create a race or perform a write to advance.
Use Back, Continue, or Skip tour. Escape closes it, Tab stays inside it, and it respects reduced-motion preferences. You can replay it from Profile or here after signing in:
Replay the short Driver OS tour
Know what is optional
- K1 result forwarding is optional and can be added later.
- Sensor Lab is optional and never blocks the journal.
- Model backed AI explanations are limited to specifically entitled accounts.
- Product update emails require a separate optional choice.
Demo Testers use simulated Connections and synthetic sensor summaries. Real results, uploads, analytical sync and live AI are unavailable for that tester kind.
What success looks like
For a Real Tester, Home opens with that account's own empty journal and next useful step. For an invited Demo Tester, the fictional scenario is populated only after required onboarding is complete. A persistent Demo data indicator explains its synthetic records, fixed scenario date and unavailable capabilities. Your verification, username and profile remain real.
If the email or approval step stalls
Use only the newest email. Request a fresh message if the link expired, and enter the newest one time code when signing in from an installed Home Screen app. Private testing access is required means the account has no applicable invitation. Private testing setup is not ready means the invitation is recorded but the testing environment has not been activated; this does not require a second personal approval.