Daily Deal: Automatic Connected Car Adapter

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Thu, May 26th 2016 10:36am — Daily Deal

Get an easy-to-read look into what's going on with your car with the Automatic Connected Car Adapter. Plug it into your dashboard and start tracking fuel efficiency and driving habits, figure out what that warning light is trying to tell you, or find your car when you've forgotten where you've parked. The adapter also monitors for major collisions and will alert Automatic Labs to call and to stay on the line with you until help arrives. It is compatible with most vehicles sold in the US after 1996 and integrates with a number of apps so you can track mileage for business or control your Nest to heat up the house on the way home. It is currently available in the Techdirt Deals Store for $89.95.

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Anonymous Coward, 26 May 2016 @ 12:33pm

For the low, low price of $89.95, you too can have your driving habits and location monetized by a third party and "their business partners".
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Anonymous Coward, 26 May 2016 @ 1:42pm

Yeah onstar is bad enough. Now let's just plug into the OBD-2 port on the car with a smartphone app.
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M. Alan Thomas II (profile), 26 May 2016 @ 11:32pm

Given all the worry in these pages about government abuse of third-party data stores and the insecurity of the Internet of Things in general and car features/accessories in specific, I'm a little surprised to see this with no mention of whether I can trust it or not.
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- Murray (profile), 27 May 2016 @ 5:34am
  
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  Ain't irony grand?
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- Anonymous Coward, 27 May 2016 @ 11:09am
  
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  It seems that Techdirt's attitude on things can change depending on how much money you give them.
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Anonymous Coward, 27 May 2016 @ 6:39am

oh HELL no
I have bought many techdirt deals but why this one is even on here shows that either a) techdirt is not filtering or b) techdirt does not care.
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DoubleWhumpus, 27 May 2016 @ 6:02pm

Wow. For $89.95 this device provides the accident-link OnStar callback thing. Everything else about it can be done with a $3 bluetooth ODBII reader and a free app from the Android store.
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