 
If you’ve been feeling like your conversations with your vehicle have been something of a one-way street, Audi’s new Eco Trainer technology (which is actually available for almost any vehicle) will give you the valuable input you’ve been missing. At least — when it comes to the environment.
The software turns driving your vehicle into an efficiency game. How much gas can you save today over yesterday? What might you do different to save fuel? From the site,
“A display mounted in the instrument cluster shows your top three fuel-consuming accessories—and the fuel you can save by cutting off each one. Eco Trainer also offer tips based on current conditions, such as advising you to close open windows that create unnecessary drag at high speeds.”
Even cooler (or annoying — your pick) the car will announce every five minutes your grade in each area of resource conservation. An animated LCD aura, called power glow, shows how “happy†the car is, in terms of efficiency, with a five-point scale and a power glow function changing color from blue (happy) to red (back off the gas, man!). I love this concept and think more games that keep track of fuel efficiency and offer tips on what to do better would take off. Especially cool would be a site where you could upload this information and compete with others for “Supreme Green Driving”. Hopefully, we’ll see this creep into more affordable vehicles (Prius, Civic) over the next couple years.
via german car blog
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As long as you can make the car not talk back…I have children for that.
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