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  • Witsend
    Banned
    • Nov 2012
    • 2942

    Dongle Smongle

    I predict in a few years on new cars there won't be any need to connect anything into the DLC (at least for Generic OBD2 because you be able) to connect your scanner to the car's built in Blue Tooth. You drive car with a check engine light with same code past toll way transponders for more than 31 days in a row , Illinois Air Team sends you a Fix it Ticket on your car's information display and you can no longer pair your phone any longer.
  • GypsyR
    Senior Member
    • Jul 2017
    • 287

    #2
    Considering the lameness of the computing power of the latest and greatest scanners (of every brand), I'd expect at some point to have no scanner at all. Cars are getting more and more computing power built in, why can't they do all that stuff? Just use a technician access code to the car. Read all the codes and info you want right on the car's dash screen.

    Or just give the car the password to your shop's wifi and then read the car's diagnostic info on your tablet or laptop also connected to wifi.

    Or even further on, codes so that a car recognizes that it is present at an authorized repair facility so it connects to all that automatically and only has to wait until a tech or service writer checks an in-shop notification screen to see what the vehicle has informed them it is there for.

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    • Tech_A
      Senior Member
      • Jul 2014
      • 115

      #3
      Witsend, its going to be a long time till any bureaucratic agency can harness those kind of resources. We still have old smog (state inspection) machines out here using dial up internet to wire info to the state capitol. The gubmit needs to be hard wired or carbon copied on everything.

      GypsyR, the scan tool is only as smart as the operating system in cars. Fancy shmancy electric cars like tesla are running linux and have direct interfaces. Whereas everyone else in the industry is still connecting with dated windows tough books.

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      • kirkbarrow.garage
        Senior Member
        • Jan 2015
        • 149

        #4
        Originally posted by GypsyR
        Considering the lameness of the computing power of the latest and greatest scanners (of every brand), I'd expect at some point to have no scanner at all. Cars are getting more and more computing power built in, why can't they do all that stuff? Just use a technician access code to the car. Read all the codes and info you want right on the car's dash screen.

        Or just give the car the password to your shop's wifi and then read the car's diagnostic info on your tablet or laptop also connected to wifi.

        Or even further on, codes so that a car recognizes that it is present at an authorized repair facility so it connects to all that automatically and only has to wait until a tech or service writer checks an in-shop notification screen to see what the vehicle has informed them it is there for.


        You will probably find that the car is a " self driving car " and drove itself to the service facility by itself because it knew it had a ' minor ' problem and a dull code like P0302 😂😂😂

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        • Witsend
          Banned
          • Nov 2012
          • 2942

          #5
          You will probably find that the car is a " self driving car " and drove itself to the service facility by itself because it knew it had a ' minor ' problem and a dull code like P0302 😂😂😂
          God Help this Generation. I shudder to think of all the Politically Correct, Thin skinned, Joy Stick Junkies in this this country, that if we ever lost The Grid and the telecommunication and GPS Satellites and they could no longer kill our enemy remotely a thousand miles away, with high tech toys and have to rely on old fashioned dead reckoning, artillery and hand to hand combat we be f@cked.

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          • Glide
            Senior Member
            • Jan 2015
            • 303

            #6
            Originally posted by GypsyR
            Considering the lameness of the computing power of the latest and greatest scanners (of every brand), I'd expect at some point to have no scanner at all. Cars are getting more and more computing power built in, why can't they do all that stuff? Just use a technician access code to the car. Read all the codes and info you want right on the car's dash screen.
            Cadillac had that in the eighties and and nineties.Both ECM and BCM codes and data could be read through the HVAC display and also some bidirectional controls.That was also the only way traction control could be disabled as they didn't want customers to be able to turn it off.

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