Do you care about smartphone integration with your car? (Poll)

Posted on by Taylor Martin

For the last week, I’ve been driving around Charlotte listening to my car lambaste me for stomping the throttle too hard or slamming on the brakes. I’ve also had the unique ability to look back through all my driving history, in borderline-creepy detail. I posted my review of Automatic, a smartphone app with an accompanying module which plugs into the OBD-II port on your car and tracks your every last move while driving, yesterday morning. For $100, the device isn’t exactly cheap, but what it ...

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Pocketnow Weekly 066: special guest MKBHD joins us to talk Nexus 5, Galaxy Gear, & more!

Posted on by Michael Fisher

There comes a time when you just gotta do what the readers want. Particularly when their demands are awesome. You tweeted, you pleaded, you emailed, you told us in person at trade shows and during mildly creepy public run-ins: “have Marques Brownlee on the Weekly!” you demanded. And after weeks of dancing around schedules, overseas trips, and major

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Automatic review: your car, smarter

Posted on by Taylor Martin

Since Friday, I have spent a total of six hours and eight minutes driving. I traveled 181.7 miles, averaging 32.7 miles per gallon. And the total amount of money I’ve spent driving since Friday is $19.10. But I can get even more detailed than that. I spent $0.69 driving to the office yesterday morning – a trip which was 7.3 miles. The trip to IKEA on Saturday cost me $0.99 and was 9.4 miles. I stayed under 70mph, hit the gas a little too hard once, and slammed on the brakes once, too. I know all of this because I plugged a module into the OBD (on-board diagnostic) port in our car ...

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