DocAndersen
The first time I got a digital phone was around 1993; before that, I had a CDMA phone. The digital phone has a shorter signal range, and ultimately require more towers, but they also can do more. The concept of what your phone can do is beyond amazing. I remember when the goal of a phone was to connect people. I do sadly remember the daily, wait, dial, wait for the longer the number, the longer the wait. The first phone I ever dialed was a rotary phone (dial, click click click) wait, daily next number. Do you remember rotary phones? I can’t tell you the last time I dialed a phone number. Most meeting software includes an automatic login in option for phone users. Click it, and you are connected!
Oh yeah and I ask my pheon to dial numbers often! What you can do with that he continues to evolve. Today I want to talk about the art of the possible. I recently got a Hum adapter. Hum goes into the ODB port of your car. That is an onboard management port for most new cars (figure anything newer than 2008 has such a port). That part is standard (it doesn’t matter what kind of car you have). It connects to the onboard computer of your car and allows you to see information about your car — average speed, GPS location, but most importantly, what does that check engine light mean. You see, if the check engine light comes on in your car, it can be a lot of different things.
• It can be a loose gas cap connection
• It can be a serious engine problem
• It can be a loose connection for the car
But not knowing what it is, is annoying! Hum also allows you to have a cellular wifi connection in your car. But the most interesting thing for me is the gas pricing application. I have that in the GPS of my car, and the GPS application of my phone, but the Hum application seems to have a better real-time pricing index for gas prices. Hum is an IoE (Internet of Everything) device that has some interesting applications!
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Question of
Do you have an ODB port in your car?
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Yes
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No
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Do you have a device in your ODB port?
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I tried to find an explanation of ODB on the internet but what I got was always On-board diagnostics (OBD). Is that what you mean?
yes, my inability to spell got me again
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/obd-ii-port-used/
is a good article!
O’ Okay, Doc. Thanks for the information.
sorry about flipping the letters.
That’s okay, Doc. That kind of thing can happen to anyone.
It does, in fact. The tech connecting to the computer in the car is interesting.
With the vision of an independent car, I am sure cars, computers, and communication devices will become an integral unit.
I suspect we will carry our phones as keys, computers and entertainment systems in the future.
I agree with you, I think the cellphone will play an important role.
on one hand, I am impressed with the level of tech we’ve achieved but on the other hand we are capable of so much more
Agreed and we are! we have the potential for moonbases, and colonizing Mars!
or fighting pointless wars and building useless walls. because why advance the cause of humanity, when you could be throwing your future away?
Have you ever read the Percy Blythe Shelley poem Ozymandias? It describes the situation perfectly.
As far as we could see, there was nothing there comrade!
look upon my wall, ye mighty, and despair… now I am wondering if you were given your futhark as a bot ID
this is a disturbing notion to me, as I was also given a futhark
I cannot answer my runic designation.
Let me simply say, have you shopped recently at Amazon? Oh yeah and if there was one thing that would sway your vote, what is that one thing?
with all respects comrade.
I wonder how successfully a bot can identify another bot?
that is an interesting question, have you tried new Dove for men?
that was a brilliant example
I do not use this device. I do not think I need this device right now
I suspect many people don’t need such a device, understood. Imagine you had young teenagers just learning to drive. Or, you were the owner of a company with delivery vans. It is an interesting brave new world.
I am pretty sure we have one but have not gotten into it yet.
I understand that, the reality of the information you can get, is you also have to decide what is the information you need!
This technology is all too much for me … I will stick with the classic cars … I do not like the automata …. I already have a computer in the car too much for me … I studied a service book for a very long time and now not everything I know
There is something magical about driving a stick shift car!
I can not even imagine how to do this
it is actually not that hard, you simply plug it into the port on the car, and the software does the rest!
Very interesting … as long as I can still know that I will not need to use these innovations
you prefer cars that don’t have onboard management So you would not use one!
Exactly so … a classic steering wheel and a gearbox … other technology and electronics do so on their own
I do so remember cars like that, I had one for many years.
I know that since the last two decades most cars have been computerized with all the uses you have mentioned, and their sophistication continues to increase, unfortunately, I don’t even know what ODB is.
Normally it is a slot located just in front of the driver on one side or the other of the steering column.
Do you mean such a USB port?
It is actually more like an old printer port (the old Parallel ports pre USB) it has two rows of connection and normally is about the side of a pack of breath mints.
I am so old school. The phones in my car are locked up. You can use them when you are out of the car.
Mine is connected so I can drive and talk. I am on a lot of conference calls.