by Kat Callahan of www.jalopnik.com
Honda
apparently thinks you absolutely, positively, desperately need to know
at all times what the reading on your odometer is, or how far you just
traveled, or what your cruising range is... And they’ve made an app for
that. If you’re in Japan.
The app,
which is available on iPhone as well as the new Apple Watch, comes in
English and Japanese, and all the promotional material is in English, but
the app is only available from the Japanese iTunes store. There are, of
course, ways around that, but they usually require some kind of proof
of connection to Japan. Even I haven’t yet downloaded the app—I have a
US based account, not a Japanese one.
The promotional material states there are seven “Basic Functions” that
the app has: cruising range (how long until you need to fill up),
odometer, parking (I guess it uses Maps to help you locate parking and
tells you how long it will take), a fuel efficiency score, another
function which is similar to cruising range but tells you before you
start driving (uh... so... it’s cruising range but with a different
picture?), a timer which allows you to keep track of how long you have
been away from the vehicle (for parking meter purposes apparently), and
finally an arrival information function which tells you how long you
drove for, the distance traveled, and what your average fuel economy
was.
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