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Why we built the Link
When we founded Automatic, it wasn’t immediately obvious that we should build our own hardware. Adapters that plug into your car’s diagnostic port had been around for a long time, and we thought we...
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When I first moved to the U.S. six years ago as a grad student, I bought a 1998 Honda Accord. It had seen better days, but it was a great car. Unfortunately, I had a rude awakening when I tried to buy...
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Pit Stop: We Nerd Out Over Our Favorite Drivers
When you work with car technology all day, your conversations tend to turn to cars even if you weren’t explicitly talking about them. For example, when Mad Max: Fury Road came out recently, a few of us...
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Pit Stop: Some of Our Favorite Driving Songs
Music and cars go together like peanut butter and jelly. Whether you roll the window down and sing to the highway, or you channel Neil Peart and drum on the steering wheel, having your jam on while...
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20 Percent: The Making Of Automatic Dashboard Labs
The data you create with Automatic tells a story. But graphs and stats and numbers only provide part of the tale. That’s why we created Automatic Dashboard Labs, a new way to visualize and interact...
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20 Percent: How We Made Our Dumb Cars Smarter With AutoDash
When Automatic moved earlier this year, our lead Android developer Duncan Carroll found himself spending more time in the car. And something was missing. “I have a dumb car,” laments Duncan. “All my...
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Your Driver Fingerprint Has More In Common With Your Astrology Sign
We all believe we’re above average drivers, but our data science team knows it’s far more complicated than a simple binary of good versus bad. Driving is nuanced and complex, with dozens of variables...
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What Happens When Santa Uses Automatic?
In 1955, Sears Roebuck & Co. famously misprinted a phone number in an ad for children to call Santa Claus. Instead of reaching the Santa stand-ins at the Sears call center, the children reached...
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