Why You Really Need GOFAR Ray’s New Feature Posted on December 23, 2016 How many times in your life have you had the urge to say a sentence “Why didn’t you just say so?! Frustrating, right? So many annoying situations could have been avoided if you only knew what’s going on. You know all those times when you tried to send a voice message, only to find out […]
Award-Winning GOFAR App is Now On Android Posted on October 21, 2016 You heard that right, GOFAR is… Here’s how to get set up GOFAR on Android. First, and this is important, please DO download the app. Don’t just plug GOFAR in and start driving! Next, follow the instructions on the app to set up the device Once installed, the device needs to calibrate – this happens automatically […]
GQ says you’re cool for supporting GOFAR! Posted on October 11, 2016 It’s nice to know you’ve got your finger on the pulse sometimes, and now this article from GQ covering the Top 10 Coolest Things in the World proves that you backers of GOFAR are definitely the in crowd! We’re just below a spatula (a nice spatula) but we’re cooler than a nice looking drone! Forbes and Gizmodo were impressed with […]
ISO Happy! Posted on October 11, 2016 When we went live we supported pretty much all petrol cars built since 2008. Technically that meant cars that worked on the more modern CAN-BUS protocol. One great thing about GOFAR though it that, unlike your car, we can update it as we learn and improve. So, we’ve just released an upgrade that will allow […]
Tag you’re it Posted on October 11, 2016 We’ve added tagging to our app so you can tag any trip with anything. Probably the most lucrative way to use this is to tag trips as work, so that you never miss out on expenses again. Then you can just export your trips and it will export any tags you added too. You might also […]
Good Design Award Win! Posted on October 11, 2016 GOFAR has won a prestigious Good Design Award®. The expert panel at Good Design recognised the innovation and inspiration that went into creating a beautiful and simple solution to complex challenge of improving driver efficiency in cars. Other winners were Google for their new OnHub wifi device and Oculus Rift, the virtual reality company. The overall 2016 award went […]
Good Design Entry Posted on October 11, 2016 We entered the Good Design Awards this year – here’s our entry. [Update: We won in the Consumer Electronics category!] GOFAR logs, scores and improves your driving. It connects your car to your smartphone, seamlessly logging driving data to the cloud. Intuitive, real-time feedback from GOFAR nudges drivers to a safer, greener, more efficient driving style, whilst […]
The easy way to save the world. Just sleep in! Posted on October 11, 2016 There’s lots you can do to save the world. You can switch to only eating macro-biotic myco-protein You can compost nearly everything You can holiday locally and never get on a plane You can turn down the thermostat and turn off those lights. But surely there’s an easier way? Sleeping in, you say? Tell me […]
We’re gearing up for pre-production! Posted on October 11, 2016 Today we have a very exciting milestone to announce for GOFAR. We have commissioned the construction of our plastic injection mould tooling. We performed an exhaustive search of vendors and have selected our partner to work with. They have the gold standard in quality certification (ISO9001) and have a number of decades of experience delivering […]