AutoAide - Be Smart when Driving or Maintaining Your Car
Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2013 11:10 pm
Getting close to kickoff time for AutoAide - will probably submit to Kickstarter tomorrow.
Here's the video - almost complete: http://youtu.be/FGQ50Me4Xyw
AutoAide is a hardware device which connects your car to your iPhone or Android - to enable you to be smarter when driving or maintaining your car.
This system allows your iPhone or Android to do things like:
1) Tell you what that check engine warning light really is. Most of the time the failure isn't critical, but without AutoAide or some other tool - there's just no way to know
2) Monitor your car battery so that you'll know when it is time to replace it
3) Greatly improve GPS accuracy and reduce GPS lock time when using any GPS related app on your smartphone - like Google maps
4) And at a lower power drain on your smartphone too!
5) Be able to get navigation directions or see what the street address is by touch. No need to type!
6) Be able to see when other people are about to leave their parking spot when you need parking. AutoAide enables social parking where AutoAide users who are leaving their parking spots will automatically let other AutoAide users in the area know that a space is about to become available
7) For select cities to start with, and more as more AutoAide users come on line, be able to see if open parking spots are legal and get automatic parking ticket avoidance reminders
8) Get automatic reminders when scheduled maintenance is coming up (stretch goal)
9) Be notified when you're going to be late to an offsite meeting due to traffic (stretch)
10) Be able to automatically gather business miles driven for tax deduction purposes
All this and more for a one time hardware purchase of $65 - and a free app!
Think of AutoAide as an affordable way to retrofit any car made after 1995 into a Connected Car.
Here's the video - almost complete: http://youtu.be/FGQ50Me4Xyw
AutoAide is a hardware device which connects your car to your iPhone or Android - to enable you to be smarter when driving or maintaining your car.
This system allows your iPhone or Android to do things like:
1) Tell you what that check engine warning light really is. Most of the time the failure isn't critical, but without AutoAide or some other tool - there's just no way to know
2) Monitor your car battery so that you'll know when it is time to replace it
3) Greatly improve GPS accuracy and reduce GPS lock time when using any GPS related app on your smartphone - like Google maps
4) And at a lower power drain on your smartphone too!
5) Be able to get navigation directions or see what the street address is by touch. No need to type!
6) Be able to see when other people are about to leave their parking spot when you need parking. AutoAide enables social parking where AutoAide users who are leaving their parking spots will automatically let other AutoAide users in the area know that a space is about to become available
7) For select cities to start with, and more as more AutoAide users come on line, be able to see if open parking spots are legal and get automatic parking ticket avoidance reminders
8) Get automatic reminders when scheduled maintenance is coming up (stretch goal)
9) Be notified when you're going to be late to an offsite meeting due to traffic (stretch)
10) Be able to automatically gather business miles driven for tax deduction purposes
All this and more for a one time hardware purchase of $65 - and a free app!
Think of AutoAide as an affordable way to retrofit any car made after 1995 into a Connected Car.
