Garmin’s Green Driving System

The Computer Electronics Show (CES) is underway, and the first navigation item to hit the wires is this: the Garmin ecoRoute.

Garmin is releasing an ecoRoute cable that ties into your vehicles ECU to help you tread lighter on the gas pedal and record the results. Engadget tells us that both programs will not work for 3xx and 6xx series navigation systems, but other Garmins should work just fine.

Garmin’s ecoRoute is a useful feature that helps drivers save money, and provides business travelers with good mileage logging capabilities. Drivers who must frequently file expense reports for work-related driving will greatly appreciate the Mileage Reports feature, which makes it easy to keep accurate records of distances driven and gas used. Mileage reports can also be archived onto a computer and saved for record keeping or tax purposes.

ecoRoute is easy to configure, easy to use, and automatically runs in the background whenever routing to a destination. That means you never have to manually start or stop logging, or forget to capture a trip.

Garmin might want to consider allowing more than one vehicle profile, and MSN-Direct enabled nüvis should be able to automatically download gas prices into ecoRoute. Overall, ecoRoute is a significant, free enhancement to the nüvi that’s definitely worth checking out.

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