I can confirm that we do not have any backers from the insurance industry! Our investors are fellow entrepreneurs and some VCs. But it's a good question. We hope to be able to show value to the user via cost saving promotions, but they will never be at the expense of your personal privacy - no PII data is exposed…

Glad it was useful and, again, I appreciate the interest! Hope you'll give it a whirl. :-)

Hi there, this is Jamyn from Dash. We did originally release it WW, but explicitly noting it was only optimized for the US (car models, currency, language, gas prices, metrics etc). But when people were leaving negative comments about their car not being supported (?) we had to restrict back to US only. But the good…

Hey guys, Jamyn from Dash here. Thanks for the interest. While we did win a Dept. of Energy 'green apps challenge' a while back, we have no link to the NSA that we know of. We take great pains to make sure your data is securely communicated and stored. We use services from Amazon and Google, who have world-class…

Hey guys, Jamyn from Dash here. Thanks for the interest! We put a lot of work into the UI to make sure it was simple and useful. We have some great enhancements coming down the pipeline, so stay tuned. As for Google Now? Yup, stay tuned. :-)

In addition, the Scantool device we recommend has an additional security feature - a button on the device that you need to physically depress to pair with the unit, the first time you use it. So, any trouble-maker would need to be able to access the inside of the car...in which case you've got bigger problems than an…

Hey guys, this is Jamyn from Dash. Thanks for the interest and I wanted to clear up a couple of things; we are a uni-directional service, so we are only drawing information, not issuing commands. Of course, we can't control for others writing their own apps (and there are many apps on the stores that have OBD…

Michael,

Hey guys,