Our frenemies at Google have produced a Smileage’ app with Volkswagen that endeavours to put the fun back into driving – with a ‘Smileage’ metric, of course.
Apparently you can tailor the app to any make of car, although it’s hard to see how it would work with a Lada, for example.
No doubt it works well in the wide open spaces of North America (as here), with a compliant blonde. Would it be as good stuck in a traffic jam on the A1, on a freezing cold London Monday morning (as today)?
But that’s typical Google – it even invades our misery these days.
