WANT ALL YOUR CAR DATA ON YOUR PHONE? Well, now you’ve got it. Distance, fuel cost, economy, fill ups, driving score and speed. It’s been great to track all my metrics easily on my phone using GOFAR – apart from that last one, speed. I still cannot believe how slow my average speed is driving around Sydney. We’re also tracking emissions – you’ll be surprised how many kgs of CO2 just one commute dumps into the air but being aware is the first step. What else..? Time in traffic is also logged. You can actually control how much time you spend in traffic far more than you realise and our earlier blog post on sleeping in to save the world is worth a read! GETTING STARTED WITH GOFAR TRENDS: First, you need to ensure your car is compatible with GOFAR. It is most probably compatible, considering the app works great with most car models, brands and types, including ISO cars. Next, ensure you have the latest version of the app on your phone, open it and then click on the new chart icon and start exploring. Read on for some tips. 1 – The Basics 2 – Screens: What You Can Now See 3 – Experiment with Tags – And See How Wearing Shoes Affects Economy 4 – Compare Drivers – See If Your Son Is Driving Efficiently and Safer Than You We’d love your feedback on the trends (or indeed anything else) so we can continue to make things better. 1. THE BASICS With Trends you can now see the following metrics: Costs Fuel burned (set your units to metric or imperial) Trip Duration Distance driven CO2 emissions Economy Acceleration Score Braking Score Driving Score Average Speed Refill Cost, Volume and Price You can look at metrics by Day, Week or Month To navigate metrics, swipe at the top of the screen to switch metric and swipe left or right to go back or forward in time. If you tap and hold the screen then you can drill into the detail a little. Try it..! 2. SCREENS: WHAT YOU CAN SEE View and track your fuel costs View and track the volume of fuel burned Time in traffic Track your mileage with GOFAR Monitor emissions GOFAR monitors fuel economy. (You can choose MPG too) Monitor your acceleration aggression. Higher is better. Tap and hold to see a particular day in this weekly view. Monitor your braking smoothness. Top tip – anticipate further ahead to get this score up Overall driving score (out of 200) You can see your speed averaged by day, week or month. Most people find it’s a lot lower than they expected (or hoped!) 3. USE TAGS TO SLICE INTO THE DATA A few months back we introduced tags. After any trip you can tag that trip as “Business” or indeed as anything else you choose. For example I recently ran an experiment driving with and without shoes. I’d heard one theory that driving without shoes was more sensitive and gave more control and better fuel economy, whilst I’d heard another that said driving without shoes was unsafe! Regardless, I thought I’d tag my trips for a few days to try and shine a light on the debate. Tagged trips are shown in dark and the summary measure is added above the chart to the right of the overall summary for easy comparison. So far there does not seem to be any economy gain in my No Shoes experiment.. You can also tag trips as Business if you need to track work expenses. 4. USE TAGS TO COMPARE TWO DRIVERS You can tag trips as anything, and so if you have two drivers using the same car you can use Tags and Trends to compare performance – on economy, average speed and acceleration and braking scores for example. If you have new drivers in the family then comparing drivers can be a fun way to give the new driver a target to beat whilst giving a parent some peace of mind whilst good habits are learned. Compare economy Track distance – handy if you share costs on the car With GOFAR in your car, driving keeps getting smarter – but we really appreciate it if we get advice from customers on what directions they want, so let us know what new charts and insights you’d like to see in the future. Still not sure how GOFAR makes your car smarter? We are happy to explain. Ask our friendly online support now.