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hey Dave Taylor here again and this time
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I'm in my garage cuz I'm looking at
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something in my car this is the
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automatic Pro the second generation of
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onboard diagnostic interface or
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obdi devices this one is actually the
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aut 350c let me go ahead and pull it out
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okay so I grabbed it off the car it's
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this guy it's not very big you can see
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the pro is the one that has the gold
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finish the earlier generation has a
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silver finish this one is the second
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generation just has more power more
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sophistication and what does it do so
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it's really pretty cool the primary
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purpose of it is that it lets you
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understand your cars diagnostic systems
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so modern cars and this is an ' 08 this
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is not super modern but modern cars have
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a lot of computers and the computers do
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constant running Diagnostics and when
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you take it into a servicec facility
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they plug in their computer they get a
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read out of all the data about your car
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and they can diagnose it well with this
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you can diagnose it yourself because
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they have a really nice app for your
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smartphone now that's all really cool
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and I like that but what makes this
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really really interesting is that it
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also has some other features including
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realtime vehicle location so not only
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does it do this whole sort of trip tick
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of where you are where you've been how
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you've driven and you know fast
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accelerations hard brakes all this you
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can see here's a screen capture but it
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also always knows where your car is even
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if your phone's not in the car once
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you've paired it it has its own 3G
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system and connectivity somehow I don't
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fully understand how it works it's just
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sort of magic but what this means is I
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like to think that if someone stole my
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car I could just bring up the app and
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say oh that's where you're parked let's
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go and grab my car back
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so depending on where that was I might
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actually probably wisely have a cop
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involved but it helps you figure things
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out and of course if you have kids you
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don't bother to mention anything but
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this not only tracks where they are it
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tracks where they go and it tracks how
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they drove when they got there so are
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they accelerating crazy fast are they
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actually sneaking out at 2 in the
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morning all of that you'd get right off
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of your phone right off of your um smart
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device once you have it paired up the
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first time now the other thing that
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automatic has added with the pro is they
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have what they call crash detection and
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this is something you configure in the
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app and then if you get into a crash the
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system itself will recognize that you've
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gone from 55 M an hour to 0 miles an
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hour in 3 seconds or something like that
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and it will trigger the crash event and
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that lets your system automatically
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notify people you can get to 911 you
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know it's really kind of like what they
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talk about with a lot of the like
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navstar and everything those fancy
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navigation systems that could help you
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in an accident and this one does it all
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magically so I'm a big fan of automatic
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and I like that I never ever lose my car
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in parking lots um I can actually be at
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the airport or somewhere far far away
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and say yep it's still at the airport
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parking lot I'm glad so I haven't had it
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walk away or drive away um and they also
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have added some slick connectivity with
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things like the Amazon Echo and with the
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nest so it works with Nest why my car
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and thermostat would be talking to each
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other I guess you can do it with Geo
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fencing so as I'm getting close to the
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house maybe my Nest goes to home mode
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haven't really done much with that but
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the power is there it also works with
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iftt which is if then then that or sorry
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if this then that whatever the acronym
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is but pretty powerful and again the
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thing I most like about it is I plug
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this into under my dashboard into the
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obdi port and it's magic it's invisible
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I never think about it again and my
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phone keeps track of things and I can
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see how am I doing driving how much did
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I spend last week on gasoline how long
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was that trip and how much gas did I
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actually use how many times did I have
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to hard break really interesting
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diagnostic stuff so this is the
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automatic Pro you can learn more about
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it at automatic online or you can just
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go to Amazon where you can pick one of
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these up for $19 bucks and like I said
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great for your car 10 times greater for
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your teenager's car just don't bother to
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mention or you tell them and you just
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tell them this is what it is and I'm
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going to have this running and that's
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how it works super useful this is Dave
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Taylor I need to put this back because
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I'm not going to drive without it and
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I'll catch you in my next
