Autobot OBDII bluetooth diagnostic dongle
 

Pretty cool.

Mavizon Technologies - About Autobot

Dongle Plugs Into Cars and Sends Vital Information—Even GPS Locations—to Cellphones

Dongle Plugs Into Cars and Sends Vital Information—Even GPS Locations—to Cellphones
This little dongle plugs into any car that has an OBDII port—supposedly, most cars made after 1996 have one. Ideal for obsessive oil level-checkers and those who forget where they parked the car, it's on sale next year.

It's kind of like the "Lost My Phone" feature for iPhones. GPS locations can be sent to the phone, but also to any other numbers you've programmed it with, along with emergency services too.

Perhaps the most useful function of the AutoBot is that if you're involved in an accident which causes the airbags to pop out, the dongle sends an SMS to programmed numbers or emergency services, informing them of your location. That'd be infinitely helpful, but fingers crossed it's one of the lesser-used functions.

Oil levels, maintenance records and other such diagnostics are sent from the car to the app, which translates car-language to English.

Mavizon is hopeful they'll be able to keep the price down to under $300 when it launches next year. [Mavizon via SlashGear]

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What's the best canusb in your opinion? And T5 suite can read fault codes and do car diagnostic too? I have only messed around with maps and tuning never any of that other stuff. Could you point me in a direction as where in T5 to find that information? Thanks again.

Griffin CarTrip
 

This looks very similar. Very cool graphics.

OBD-II Car Monitoring System for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad | Griffin Technology

Wonder which will be better?