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can a device this small keep track of
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your car and your teen driver let's find
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out Dave tayor here again and this time
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I'm looking at the Carlock connected
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drive and that's this guy and you're
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looking at it and you're like um that's
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an uninteresting little box but it's
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actually super interesting cuz it
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connects to your car via What's called
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the onboard diagnostic interface or
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obdi and that's why it has this weird
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plug on it with all these pins and the
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obdi is designed for when you drive into
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the mechanic or drive into your
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dealership they actually plug a cable in
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and their computers talk to your
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computers in your car and figure out
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what's going on but this thing works in
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the very same way so one of its cool
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features is it actually lets you see the
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diagnostic data for your car so you can
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actually monitor your car's Health
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without having to go into the dealership
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but where this gets really interesting
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is this has GPS tracking so you can
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always know where your car is and it
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also has the ability to score and
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analyze driving while you're doing it
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which turns out to be a huge Boon for
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parents of teen drivers now teen drivers
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particularly teen boy drivers I am not
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being sexist this is just the stats I
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driver they're a little bit more whack
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and so this device lets me actually see
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if we're seeing harsh acceleration sharp
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breaking sharp cornering any stuff
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that's outside of the normal behavior of
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a vehicle it will log and then on my app
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on my either iPhone or Android phone I
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can actually see how my teenager has
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been doing behind the wheel that could
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be really great and it could be a great
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safety thing where just like just a
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reminder a little bit big brothery but I
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still got your back and I'm still going
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to help make sure that you're driving
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safely so that's really cool and it has
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Diagnostics but really what car lock is
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all about what they really advertise is
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features so with this in my car and once
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I plug it in I never take it out and in
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fact here let me show you on this Camry
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you can see here's where the plug is for
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the obdi and it's really just above the
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gas pedal and once you plug this in you
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never really take it out at all and it's
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not in the way you don't even notice it
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so it's just very discreet which is nice
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I think that's probably why they made it
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black so you can't even see it um and
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it's just there but when I have this
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thing hooked up once I park my car I can
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tell the app that I'm done driving and
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if there are any unusual vibrations if
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my car starts if my car moves if my car
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has this device disconnected all of
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those I'll get notifications for so you
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can see here's a notification for
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vibration but where this gets really
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interesting is I actually left it saying
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that my car was done and then I drove
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somewhere else and so it alerted me as
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if my car had been stolen and you can
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see in this map here's where my car was
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even though I thought I had parked and
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left it in my driveway so that's really
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really cool now I don't live in a
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neighborhood where there's a lot of car
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theft but if you're in an area where
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you're worried about that or perhaps
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it's a commercial vehicle and you're
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really curious when we actually are done
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for the day people taking the trucks
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home are people taking the cars home or
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going out on dates with them or do they
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sit in the parking lot like they're
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supposed to you could figure all that
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out with a car lock now obdi works with
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any car since 1996 you can double check
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on their website Carlock doco but you're
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pretty much guaranteed if you have a
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reasonably recent car certainly from
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2000 forward you're going to have the
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right plug to be able to put this thing
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in now Carlock this is an interesting
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device because it has a subscription cuz
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it's online and that's good because it
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doesn't need your phone to be in the car
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so when I first looked at these sort of
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devices I thought um if I'm not in the
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car how is it reporting the data and it
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turns out this is plenty enough
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circuitry to be able to do data
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reporting on the cloud so kind of magic
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however that works but that means if
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someone rips off my car and drives 200
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mil away I'll still know where it is
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which is pretty darn handy so the car
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lock is 9 $99 at Carlock doco but just
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before I made this video I checked on
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Amazon and they actually have it on a
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pretty sweet sale it's only $59.95 at
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amazon.com now I can't guarantee it'll
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be that price when you check but it's
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definitely worth looking and I said
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there's a subscription service it also
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$960 a month subscription which you
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really need to be able to have this
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device work or you can pick it up and
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pay $113 a year for the subscription and
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again if you're a commercial company and
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have commercial cars or sales vehicles
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or whatever or even police cars right
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that'd be useful is you can track all of
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this stuff with one of these devices so
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that's a pretty small price to pay to
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know what's going on with your car
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whether you're in it or not so this is
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Dave Taylor I need to go put this back
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in the Camry and I will catch you in my
