iPhone Tests the Speed of AMG Performance Cars for You
The next time you want to see how fast your AMG performance car can reach 60 mph from a standstill, use your iPhone.
A young programmer in Scotland uses a program on his iPhone called Dynolicious. The new software program can test his car’s acceleration to see how fast and efficient it is. His Ferrari reached 60 mph in about 5.2 seconds according to his iPhone.
This program “tracks the changes of speed with the iPhone’s built-in accelerometer.” Dynolicious is constantly monitoring the changes to convert the data into an estimate of the car’s speed.
More and more pieces of software are popping up for the iPhone. People are starting to see how much they can actually do for them. Who would have ever thought that a cell phone could tell you which way you are going and how fast you are going to get there? However, owners of AMG performance cars and other fast cars question the accuracy of the program’s findings. The measurements are “so small,” they say, that there is too much room for error.
Do you really need an iPhone to know that if you’re in an AMG performance car, you’re going pretty freakin’ fast? This just seems like an unnecessary program to me.
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