DRV.club — The Driving App Built by the Same Team Behind Pure Adrenalin

A note from Niro on the sister-brand app the team is building. This isn’t a launch announcement — DRV.club is in active development, not yet on the App Store. But the Journal readers ask about it often enough that a structured preview is useful.

TL;DR

• What: DRV.club — a native iOS and Android app for drivers who travel in groups.
• Why: Single-driver nav apps (Google Maps, Waze) don’t solve the group-driving problem. We’re building the one that does.
• Status: Active development. MVP focused on the tour builder + live convoy.
• Team: Built by the same crew behind Pure Adrenalin.
• Brand: Sister brand under DRV.club family.

The problem we’re solving

If you’ve ever driven in a convoy of three or more cars on a multi-day tour, you know the problem. The lead car can see the route. The third and fourth cars can’t see the lead car. At a junction, half the convoy goes left and half goes right. The WhatsApp group fills up with “where are you?” and “we lost you at the petrol station.” By dinner the route discussion has eaten the evening.

It’s the same problem on a club drive on a Saturday morning. Same problem at a wedding convoy. Same problem any time more than two cars try to go to the same place at the same time.

We’ve been guiding driving tours for eight years. The convoy-management problem is the one we have most opinions about — what works, what doesn’t, what guests notice, what they don’t. We finally decided to build the tool we’ve been wanting.

What the app does

There are four pieces.

1. The Tour Builder

The leader of the group pastes a Google Maps link — say a multi-stop route from Munich to Salzburg. The app turns that into a curated route that everyone in the group can see in advance. You can add waypoints, add notes (“petrol at the second stop, lunch at the third”), add expected arrival times. Send the link to the group and they all have the same route loaded.

This is the part the trip-planner spends time in. Everyone else just opens the route on their phone the morning of.

2. Live Convoy

Thirty minutes before departure, the app switches into convoy mode automatically. Every car in the group sees the others on a shared live map. The lead car can see who’s behind, who’s lagging, who’s pulled over. The trailing cars can see where the front is heading.

This sounds simple. It’s the feature that most changes the group dynamic.

3. In-app Walkie-Talkie

A push-to-talk channel for the convoy. No phone calls, no Bluetooth pairing, no shouting into a microphone. Tap once, hold, talk. Everyone in the group hears it instantly.

Useful for: “petrol coming up in 5 km,” “watch out for radar at the bend,” “I’m pulling over for photos,” “wait at the next junction.” All the things that have to happen in a group drive that previously required pulling over, calling someone, then continuing.

4. Passive traffic intelligence

This is the long-game feature. Every DRV-enabled car contributes anonymous GPS speed data. The app compares observed speeds against posted speed limits across the route. Real congestion = observed speeds far below posted limits, aggregated across multiple cars in the area.

This is different from Waze (which is based on user reports — “accident here,” “police there”). DRV’s traffic is purely observed. As the fleet grows, the data gets better. We’re not at fleet-density yet, so this feature is more potential than present-day. But it’s the long-term reason the app exists.

Where Pure Adrenalin fits

Pure Adrenalin guests are some of the first beta users. Every tour group from this point forward gets the app loaded on day one and uses it for the week. We get real-world feedback on what works and what doesn’t. The walkie-talkie has already changed how we run the long driving days on the Porsche Europe tour — what used to need a pre-day route briefing now happens live on the road.

Where the project is going

Three expansion markets we’ve publicly committed to: Dubai, Porto, Dallas. These are where the DRV.club community is growing — driving clubs, weekend convoys, instructor groups. The app needs to work for those communities as much as it does for our touring guests.

The roadmap also includes:

• Android Auto integration (in development — the convoy view on the dashboard screen, walkie-talkie via the steering wheel)
• CarPlay integration (planned)
• A club organiser layer — drive announcements, RSVPs, photo/video sharing post-drive
• Race/track day mode — a separate experience for closed-course lap recording (sister product to the convoy mode)

How to get on the early list

If you’d like to be notified when the app opens for early access — particularly if you run a driving club, organise weekend convoys, or operate a tour business that could use the group-driving toolkit — email me and I’ll add you to the list. We’ll be inviting in cohorts as the build matures.

For Pure Adrenalin tour guests, you’ll see DRV.club at the briefing on Day 1 of your next departure. No separate signup needed.

— Niro Sharon, Founder, Pure Adrenalin & DRV.club