Nissan and the Yokohama plan to offer an iPhone application that's to encourage local residents to drive more efficiently, hoping to help them save gas and go easy on the environment.
The iPhone eco-driving app links to the car over a Wi-Fi connection and monitors the acceleration, cruising speed and deceleration of the vehicle. The data is then uploaded to a central server, where it's compared to optimal driving profiles to rate the user's driving on a scale from one to five. The app also gives the user an overall score that rates how environmentally friendly their driving is.
The eco-driving application monitors the car's speed, it's just an approximate measure of fuel consumption. But the data is still good enough to give users a general idea of how their driving stacks up, he said.
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