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.
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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. -
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.Comment
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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 😂😂😂Comment
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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 😂😂😂Comment
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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.Comment
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