Griffin CarTrip Hooks iPhone Direct to Your Car’s Brain
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LAS VEGAS — Apple accessory maker Griffin has announced a nifty new dongle which connects your iPhone wirelessly to your car’s brain. The CarTrip is an OBD-II hardware interface connects to the iPhone via Bluetooth.
OBD-II (On-Board Diagnostic System) is a standard interface for hooking up diagnostic computers to cars. The CarTrip plugs into the socket (found in pretty much any car made after 1996) and sends the info to a companion app called CleanDrive.
As you may guess from the name, CleanDrive isn’t about tweaking your car for performance but for tweaking your own driving for better fuel economy. You can see readouts and graphs for acceleration, top speed, fuel consumption, as well as fault codes. Trip analysis helps you see how you’re driving, and if the dreaded check-engine light blinks on, you don’t need to panic. Just pull over, check your phone and you’ll know what’s wrong.
The CarTrip will cost $90 and is “coming soon.” The companion CleanDrive app will be free, and available at the same time.
CarTrip product page [Griffin]
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