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Speaker 1: Car Doctor Dodge in Maryland, Europe. Next with the car Doctor.

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Speaker 1: How can I help? Yeah, you're living dangerously today. You know,

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the radio home of ron and Nanian the

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Speaker 1: Car Doctor. Since this is where car owners the world

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Speaker 1: overturned to for their definitive opinion, not automotive repair. If

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Speaker 1: I am here to take your calls at eight five

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Speaker 1: nonsensical ravings of a lunatic mind. He running. Hey, it's

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Speaker 1: time to start your engines. Long. Welcome Nini and the

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Speaker 1: Car Doctor here at eight five five five six zero

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Speaker 1: Whatever you've got going on. Make your problem the car

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Speaker 1: Doctor's problem. Let's fix the car and get it back

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Speaker 1: out on the road. Busy week at the shop is

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Speaker 1: kinds of information and all kinds of requests and conversations

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Speaker 1: last week's show, and I was gonna do this, let

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Speaker 1: seemed to be a hot button topic last week. Last week,

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Speaker 1: if you recall, we were talking about stable fuel additive

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Speaker 1: while since we've seen something generate this much email and

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Speaker 1: sure created a firestorm. Uh. Dodge from Maryland called up

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Speaker 1: and his suggestion was, why not use aviation gas? Right,

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Speaker 1: And if you need more information, to give me a

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Speaker 1: How can I get after? Good afternoon? Run um? Longtime

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Speaker 1: Weren't any of the car doctor at five zero nine

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Speaker 1: old vehicle. Um, you know, I think before I went

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Speaker 1: any further on the assumption that you're not too worried

426
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Speaker 1: about somebody stealing your two thousand buick, which I kind

427
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Speaker 1: of don't think, so, you know, I my next step

428
00:23:00,960 --> 00:23:03,639
Speaker 1: would be, you know, here, here comes Google to the

429
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Speaker 1: rescue bypass two thousand buick. Let's saber um antitest system

430
00:23:09,440 --> 00:23:11,440
Speaker 1: and and see what comes up. And I'd be willing

431
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Speaker 1: to bet that there's someone out there. I actually on

432
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Speaker 1: the on the generation before that, I ran into this

433
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Speaker 1: about five six years ago where I had I was

434
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Speaker 1: for some reason we were talking about it and then

435
00:23:22,440 --> 00:23:24,960
Speaker 1: I google searched it. There was somebody out there selling

436
00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:28,639
Speaker 1: a kid he put into the wiring harness and it

437
00:23:28,960 --> 00:23:31,080
Speaker 1: it you know, it just it just did the work.

438
00:23:31,160 --> 00:23:33,159
Speaker 1: You didn't have to measure the resistor, you didn't have

439
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Speaker 1: to do anything. It was it was. It was kind

440
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Speaker 1: of neat um. Yeah, I think I think I saw

441
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Speaker 1: that went on Google and some where you kind of

442
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Speaker 1: weigh the plastic at the top of the key and

443
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Speaker 1: reveal the top of the shank and there was like

444
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Speaker 1: a there was like a resistor or something a chip

445
00:23:49,880 --> 00:23:52,640
Speaker 1: up in the top of the key behind the plastic. Well,

446
00:23:52,720 --> 00:23:55,720
Speaker 1: that's something that's you see that that's something else too, right,

447
00:23:55,920 --> 00:23:59,440
Speaker 1: that's that's something else. And and then there's this then

448
00:23:59,520 --> 00:24:01,840
Speaker 1: there's this systems that right there having you take the

449
00:24:01,920 --> 00:24:05,440
Speaker 1: chip out and you can glue it at the particular

450
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Speaker 1: spot in the column, and that tricks the system into

451
00:24:07,520 --> 00:24:10,880
Speaker 1: thinking that the key is always there, right. And that's

452
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Speaker 1: and the reason I asked about the tilt wheel is

453
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Speaker 1: because Mike, you know, we saw a lot of these

454
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Speaker 1: in my experience that if someone used the tilt wheel.

455
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Speaker 1: And then even as the vehicle just got older, the

456
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Speaker 1: wires were very um frail, they were very fragile, and

457
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Speaker 1: it was just it was these two thin white wires

458
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Speaker 1: like almost like piano wire that came off the back

459
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Speaker 1: of the lock cylinder that generated the resistance value signal

460
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Speaker 1: going down the length of the column. And then they

461
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Speaker 1: made it right and went over to the PCM and

462
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Speaker 1: the anti theft modules. So you know, it was it

463
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Speaker 1: was I don't know, listen, I think it should be law.

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Speaker 1: After a vehicle of seven years old, wheelocks get thrown

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Speaker 1: out in anti theft systems get bypassed because I don't

466
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Speaker 1: think anybody wants them anymore, and it makes it a

467
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Speaker 1: bigger headache than it's worth in the first place. You know,

468
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Speaker 1: I just don't see it, but I would. I would

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Speaker 1: resolve that first. And here's why. P zero one oh

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Speaker 1: one points towards a possible problem in the mass airflow censor.

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Speaker 1: If it's equip this is either gonna be a math

472
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Speaker 1: or a map car. If this is a mass airflow

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Speaker 1: car points to possible problems in the mass airflow. If

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Speaker 1: it's a map car points towards possible problems in the map.

475
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Speaker 1: And you know what I would tell somebody to do

476
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Speaker 1: is hook up a scan tool, bring up whatever pit

477
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Speaker 1: we're chasing mass or math and and and graphic, and

478
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Speaker 1: take it for a ride. Does the graph look normal?

479
00:25:27,920 --> 00:25:29,520
Speaker 1: Do we ever see its spike? And I would only

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Speaker 1: watch one or two particular censors, maybe three, look at

481
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Speaker 1: road speed that particular sensor and engine rpm and you know,

482
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Speaker 1: does it glitch? Does it? Does it? Does it die

483
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Speaker 1: out fast enough that way? Now that might be lab

484
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Speaker 1: scope country, or we've got to hook up a lab

485
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Speaker 1: scope to it. But before we bring out the heavy guns,

486
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Speaker 1: I always try to go simple first. One one thing

487
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Speaker 1: to be aware of is that, you know, my concern

488
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Speaker 1: is if the vehicle stalls while it's running because of

489
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Speaker 1: thy theft I've seen. I've seen engines on their way

490
00:26:03,840 --> 00:26:07,920
Speaker 1: out creating store a bunch of false codes that aren't

491
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Speaker 1: necessarily accurate because they were just they were you know,

492
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Speaker 1: the computer was shut down improperly in that sense of

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Speaker 1: the word. So let's let's get rid of Let's get

494
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Speaker 1: rid of what we don't need first if we can,

495
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Speaker 1: and then we can kind of continue the argument in

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Speaker 1: the conversation of the diagnosis from there, all right, sir,

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Speaker 1: all right, just when I have a question. When I

498
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Speaker 1: sometimes might turn the key on at the bulb check,

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Speaker 1: which I've learned from listening to you, everything goes out

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Speaker 1: except the light. Security stays on. Turn the key off,

501
00:26:39,880 --> 00:26:42,440
Speaker 1: turned back to run, and the light goes out and

502
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Speaker 1: I start to car. Yeah, see I think that. Yeah,

503
00:26:45,760 --> 00:26:49,800
Speaker 1: I still think there's a security fault here. Yeah, I

504
00:26:49,880 --> 00:26:52,879
Speaker 1: still think that. And it's and it's very important whenever

505
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Speaker 1: you take it somewhere and they scan it for codes.

506
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Speaker 1: When when when we're looking for a problem like this,

507
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Speaker 1: you know, there's there's let's let's telling him and listening Gary,

508
00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:03,200
Speaker 1: or how many types of code scans are there? There's

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Speaker 1: what there's O b D two and then there's year

510
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Speaker 1: make model. Right, so you know if a shop walks

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Speaker 1: out with O b D two skin and they go, yeah,

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00:27:10,760 --> 00:27:12,240
Speaker 1: it's got a P zero one on one, but they

513
00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:15,000
Speaker 1: don't do a year make model scan, they may they

514
00:27:15,080 --> 00:27:16,639
Speaker 1: may not see some of the other things, and they

515
00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:18,960
Speaker 1: won't see faults and other modules and so on. So

516
00:27:19,520 --> 00:27:21,560
Speaker 1: very important we're chasing a headache like this, we want

517
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Speaker 1: to scan all modules, not just O b D two.

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Speaker 1: All right, kid, thank you very much. You're very welcome

519
00:27:27,080 --> 00:27:28,920
Speaker 1: and keep me posted. Let me know what happens Gary

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00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:31,600
Speaker 1: and Oregon. Yes, sir, take good care. I'm on any

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Speaker 1: of the Car Doctor right five five five zero zero.

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Speaker 1: Got a problem, give us a call. We'll be back

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Speaker 1: recent article in the Trades this one written by Sarah

538
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Speaker 1: Kessler UH talked about the connected car of the future

539
00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:27,320
Speaker 1: could kill off the local auto repair shop, and it's

540
00:28:27,320 --> 00:28:30,159
Speaker 1: sort of an eye opener. It talks about how the

541
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Speaker 1: data that is being collected by vehicles is being used

542
00:28:35,080 --> 00:28:41,280
Speaker 1: by the manufacturers to control, necessarily control, but change the

543
00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:44,640
Speaker 1: way you approach auto repair. UH. The article starts out

544
00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:47,040
Speaker 1: when Jim Dykester became part owner of family's auto repair

545
00:28:47,120 --> 00:28:50,880
Speaker 1: business in mechanics, diagnosed the car problems by looking under

546
00:28:50,920 --> 00:28:53,440
Speaker 1: the hood. Sure, that's where was happening, right, everything was

547
00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:56,200
Speaker 1: under the hood. Soon after that car manufacturer started the

548
00:28:56,360 --> 00:28:59,400
Speaker 1: computer control the vehicle steering wheels, air bags, brakes, windows,

549
00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:02,600
Speaker 1: mirror and everything else distrous current OUTI that he drives

550
00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:05,240
Speaker 1: has around seventy computer modules and employees. That is three

551
00:29:05,280 --> 00:29:08,200
Speaker 1: repair shops your Grand Rapids, Michigan are more properly called

552
00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:11,960
Speaker 1: technicians and mechanics. Technicians also start repaired by poking around

553
00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:14,440
Speaker 1: the engine. Not by poking around the engine, by by

554
00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:17,280
Speaker 1: by plugging a computer tool into what's known as the

555
00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:20,200
Speaker 1: onboard diagnostics port, a cracker size opening off and located

556
00:29:20,240 --> 00:29:22,400
Speaker 1: onto the dishboard to look similar to the one you

557
00:29:22,440 --> 00:29:24,560
Speaker 1: see on a computer monitor, and the story goes on

558
00:29:24,640 --> 00:29:27,600
Speaker 1: to describe some of the basic you know, code methods,

559
00:29:27,640 --> 00:29:33,120
Speaker 1: code retrieval methods, and and things like that. By it's

560
00:29:33,160 --> 00:29:36,040
Speaker 1: predicted that two hundred and fifty million connected cars will

561
00:29:36,040 --> 00:29:38,520
Speaker 1: be on the road, about one in every five vehicles.

562
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Speaker 1: Connected cars offer more elaborate more than elaborate in from

563
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Speaker 1: infotainment systems, they will also allow manufacturers to remotely monitor

564
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Speaker 1: a vehicle's help. And this is where we start to think,

565
00:29:50,080 --> 00:29:53,280
Speaker 1: will this affect the repair shop in your neighborhood? Okay,

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Speaker 1: if the car companies can predict vehicles, help predict what

567
00:29:56,360 --> 00:29:59,600
Speaker 1: maintenance work and repair work it needs and diagnose the problems,

568
00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:01,480
Speaker 1: wh would you need the guy in the corner garage

569
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Speaker 1: Because imagine the scenario and they talk about it in

570
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Speaker 1: this article. Uh, you know, you're driving along and you

571
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Speaker 1: happen to be near a dealership that has an open

572
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Speaker 1: bay for an oil change, and all of a sudden

573
00:30:12,200 --> 00:30:14,040
Speaker 1: it comes up that your vehicle needs an oil change.

574
00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:18,080
Speaker 1: It's possible, and it's conceivable the way it's going that

575
00:30:18,240 --> 00:30:21,000
Speaker 1: you're going to either here your phone ring in your

576
00:30:21,040 --> 00:30:24,440
Speaker 1: car and it's going to be the manufacturer calling saying hey, Mikey,

577
00:30:24,560 --> 00:30:28,000
Speaker 1: your cars do for oil change? Uh? Joe Smith Chevrolet

578
00:30:28,120 --> 00:30:30,680
Speaker 1: right around the corner has an open bay. We can

579
00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:32,320
Speaker 1: book the appointment for you. Would you like to stop

580
00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:35,360
Speaker 1: in and get the oil change? You know, after a while,

581
00:30:35,920 --> 00:30:37,960
Speaker 1: some people, I think, I think loyalty is going to

582
00:30:38,040 --> 00:30:41,040
Speaker 1: start to disappear because it's going to be that we

583
00:30:41,120 --> 00:30:43,239
Speaker 1: standardized or to repair to such a degree that, hey,

584
00:30:43,280 --> 00:30:45,880
Speaker 1: an oil change is just an oil change. Let's just

585
00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:48,760
Speaker 1: stop in and get an oil change. And and that's

586
00:30:48,800 --> 00:30:52,040
Speaker 1: the beginning of it. Now one of the numbers here,

587
00:30:52,080 --> 00:30:55,320
Speaker 1: and I thought I saw it. The article points out

588
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Speaker 1: that the automotive aftermarket is a three hundred billion dollar

589
00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:04,160
Speaker 1: plus industry. You know, I'm always saying that the automotive

590
00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:07,360
Speaker 1: after markets a huge part of the American economy. Well,

591
00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:10,440
Speaker 1: this is exactly what I'm talking about. So, all of

592
00:31:10,520 --> 00:31:12,440
Speaker 1: a sudden, you're gonna put a dent and and and

593
00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:15,560
Speaker 1: and damage a three billion dollar plus industry. What are

594
00:31:15,560 --> 00:31:17,480
Speaker 1: you gonna do with all these people? Where you gonna

595
00:31:17,520 --> 00:31:19,960
Speaker 1: were you gonna you know, take this? How are you

596
00:31:20,120 --> 00:31:23,160
Speaker 1: going to deal with this? There's an awful lot of

597
00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:26,360
Speaker 1: people who work in this industry. In the corner garage

598
00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:28,920
Speaker 1: related to the corner garage, and you know you and

599
00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:32,840
Speaker 1: I have had this conversation. Car manufacturers, the article continues,

600
00:31:32,880 --> 00:31:36,280
Speaker 1: have just begun to expand ways to business opportunities that

601
00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:38,320
Speaker 1: could be built on connected vehicles and all the data

602
00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:41,000
Speaker 1: that comes with them. GMS on Star, for instance, tells

603
00:31:41,080 --> 00:31:43,760
Speaker 1: customers here you go, tells customers when they need an

604
00:31:43,800 --> 00:31:46,200
Speaker 1: oil change or when their brake pads need to be switched.

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Speaker 1: These recommendations are not based on the traditional it's been

606
00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:52,480
Speaker 1: three thousand miles timeline, but upon sensors that monitor what's

607
00:31:52,520 --> 00:31:54,360
Speaker 1: happening in the car and things like the climate of

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00:31:54,400 --> 00:31:57,160
Speaker 1: your area. Tesla says, although I don't know if I

609
00:31:57,200 --> 00:31:59,479
Speaker 1: believe anything Tesla says they can do because he's having

610
00:31:59,520 --> 00:32:01,600
Speaker 1: a hard time to keeping cars on the road. Tesla

611
00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:05,480
Speaker 1: says again, spot service repair issues remotely, so can order

612
00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:08,680
Speaker 1: parts and have them waiting for customers at its repair sensors.

613
00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:11,920
Speaker 1: But there's even more to be done somewhere that eventually,

614
00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:14,640
Speaker 1: services like GMS on Star could share data they received

615
00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:17,200
Speaker 1: from connected cars with local dealers who are for repairs

616
00:32:17,240 --> 00:32:19,360
Speaker 1: and maintenance, but they won't necessarily share this type of

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Speaker 1: information with independent repair shops such as Dikester's numbering in

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Speaker 1: the one eighty thousand, hundred and eighty thousand independent repair

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Speaker 1: shops in the United States alone. That's that's that's crazy.

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00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:33,520
Speaker 1: And you know this is also part of the you

621
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Speaker 1: know what late pull over take the plays because I

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Speaker 1: I want to comment about this. We were talking about

623
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Speaker 1: this last year. I remember it now it's coming to

624
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Speaker 1: light in the way of this article. So ronading the

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Speaker 1: car doctor zero. I'll be back right after this rug

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00:32:54,960 --> 00:32:56,600
Speaker 1: back on a name of card doctors. We were talking

627
00:32:56,600 --> 00:32:59,680
Speaker 1: about connected cars. So the problem is, and I had

628
00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:01,640
Speaker 1: been it was a seminar maybe a year a year

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Speaker 1: and a half ago, and we talked about it here

630
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Speaker 1: on areas. The connected car concept. The car knows when

631
00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:10,000
Speaker 1: you gain weight, the car knows what position you put

632
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Speaker 1: your seats in. The car clearly knows whether or not

633
00:33:13,440 --> 00:33:18,160
Speaker 1: your seat belt is connected. So you know, and somebody

634
00:33:18,280 --> 00:33:22,160
Speaker 1: said this, when at what point and I've heard this conversation.

635
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Speaker 1: You know we can have cameras now that watch the road.

636
00:33:26,200 --> 00:33:30,120
Speaker 1: When at what point does the camera watch you? How

637
00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:32,480
Speaker 1: were you sitting in the seat. You know, the seat

638
00:33:32,520 --> 00:33:35,400
Speaker 1: belt was buckled, but were you sitting on the seatbelt

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Speaker 1: buckled and sitting on top of the seat belt, or

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Speaker 1: were you you know, sitting and I still see that sometimes,

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Speaker 1: Or were you sitting in the car properly with the

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Speaker 1: seat belt acrush? You know, your your your section there

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Speaker 1: so when the accident happened, you were securely belted in,

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Speaker 1: properly belted in. And all of this data is then

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Speaker 1: being relayed to the car companies and the manufacturers. But

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Speaker 1: it's it's it's even more than that. They're they're they're

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Speaker 1: looking at you know they can right you? Ever you

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Speaker 1: ever wonder how Google knows where you are? Right? Like?

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Speaker 1: You ever think about how Google traffic works? I never

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Speaker 1: really thought about it much until a couple of months back,

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Speaker 1: and I said, how does it know that the next

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Speaker 1: three miles of road everybody's slowing down? And then I realized,

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Speaker 1: because everybody's carrying Google on their phones, and the phones

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Speaker 1: are tracking where they are, So when the car slows down,

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Speaker 1: the phone slows down. That's how they know there's traffic.

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Speaker 1: Now do you ever notice how Google knows? Do you?

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Speaker 1: Were you eight? Honey? I smelled burger king on your breath.

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Speaker 1: You're on a diet. I was never there? You know

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Speaker 1: what they go? Look on Google Google Locator unless you're

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Speaker 1: you know it's they'll it'll tell you where you have been.

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Speaker 1: When will that get relay to the car companies? How

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Speaker 1: far will the connected car go? And this is just

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Speaker 1: the beginning. And that's the problem with this, that we're

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Speaker 1: gonna turn this into very big brother ish, very corporate,

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Speaker 1: very watching over your shoulder, just to sell you more

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Speaker 1: stuff that you don't need. Some food for thought, the

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Speaker 1: connected car will eliminate the independent repair business. Something to

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Speaker 1: think about. Hey, looking up at the clock, it's time

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Speaker 1: to go. Thanks for stopping by this hour. Until the

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Speaker 1: next time. I'm Ronanadian, the car doctor. Good mechanics aren't expensive,

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Speaker 1: they're priceless. See you