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Monday, June 6, 2016
I'd Give This Product A Try
Wype will come clean your car where it sits
Recently, I wrote about Wyper, the Tinder of car shopping. That prompted Andy Kim, co-founder of Wype, to contact me. His business is one letter off from Wyper, after all, so in the interest of disambiguation, here's the scoop on the car-detailing company that is more like Uber than Tinder in the app comparison game.
Wype is based in Southern California, where cars are shiny and water is scarce. Wype detailers arrive at your car armed with non-toxic, plant-based proprietary cleaning products that require no additional water — no hoses, no puddles. According to Kim, the car wash industry wastes 300 million gallons of water, or 38 gallons per car, each day. (Auto Laundry News estimates that car washes use between 35 and 120 gallons per vehicle, depending on wash type.)
No matter the demographic, there are three levels of Wype: the Quickie, which only cleans the exterior and doesn't require you to give the keys to the detailer; the Standard, which gets the interior and exterior clean; and the Swanky, which adds wax. When they clean the interior, they'll take out the trash, organize your stuff that isn't trash and leave you a mint. They also take before and after pictures.
Kim said in an email that no car has yet been too dirty for Wype to handle. "Our process safely and effectively cleans surfaces that haven't been washed for months," he wrote.
(AutoBlog.com)
Recently, I wrote about Wyper, the Tinder of car shopping. That prompted Andy Kim, co-founder of Wype, to contact me. His business is one letter off from Wyper, after all, so in the interest of disambiguation, here's the scoop on the car-detailing company that is more like Uber than Tinder in the app comparison game.
Wype is based in Southern California, where cars are shiny and water is scarce. Wype detailers arrive at your car armed with non-toxic, plant-based proprietary cleaning products that require no additional water — no hoses, no puddles. According to Kim, the car wash industry wastes 300 million gallons of water, or 38 gallons per car, each day. (Auto Laundry News estimates that car washes use between 35 and 120 gallons per vehicle, depending on wash type.)
No matter the demographic, there are three levels of Wype: the Quickie, which only cleans the exterior and doesn't require you to give the keys to the detailer; the Standard, which gets the interior and exterior clean; and the Swanky, which adds wax. When they clean the interior, they'll take out the trash, organize your stuff that isn't trash and leave you a mint. They also take before and after pictures.
Kim said in an email that no car has yet been too dirty for Wype to handle. "Our process safely and effectively cleans surfaces that haven't been washed for months," he wrote.
(AutoBlog.com)
Note: Your Car's ECU Is A Data Recorder
Tesla rejects driver's claim of unintended acceleration in Model X
Remember, Tesla vehicles track what happens.
Recently, a Tesla Model X owner who goes by Puzant posted to the Tesla Motors Forum that his 5-day-old Model X accelerated on its own and crashed into a building. The incident happened while the "car was being driven and slowly being parked" before it just accelerated into the wall. There were some minor injuries to passengers, as well as damage to the car and the building.
But the bigger story, as is so often the case, is what happened online after Puzant shared the story and pictures. Some in the Tesla Motors Forum were skeptical that things played out the way Puzant said it did. And today, Tesla issued the following statement to Electrek about the crash:
Remember, Tesla vehicles track what happens.
Recently, a Tesla Model X owner who goes by Puzant posted to the Tesla Motors Forum that his 5-day-old Model X accelerated on its own and crashed into a building. The incident happened while the "car was being driven and slowly being parked" before it just accelerated into the wall. There were some minor injuries to passengers, as well as damage to the car and the building.
But the bigger story, as is so often the case, is what happened online after Puzant shared the story and pictures. Some in the Tesla Motors Forum were skeptical that things played out the way Puzant said it did. And today, Tesla issued the following statement to Electrek about the crash:
We analyzed the vehicle logs which confirm that this Model X was operating correctly under manual control and was never in Autopilot or cruise control at the time of the incident or in the minutes before. Data shows that the vehicle was traveling at 6 mph when the accelerator pedal was abruptly increased to 100%. Consistent with the driver's actions, the vehicle applied torque and accelerated as instructed. Safety is the top priority at Tesla and we engineer and build our cars with this foremost in mind. We are pleased that the driver is ok and ask our customers to exercise safe behavior when using our vehicles.(AutoBlog.com)
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