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Let me just say this now, if you are a guy, you have no business under the hood of ANY car if you need this app. On the other hand, if you are a woman, this should be a mandatory install on your phone / tablet. :D
 
I wouldn't mind a version that gave torque specs on all fasteners and told you where all the little vacuum lines and assorted tubery is supposed to go.
 
Get Torque for Android and you'll have all the info you'll need about your car. Along with this cheap OBD2 bluetooth adapter, and you're set.

All that application does is tell you where all the basic fluids are in your engine. If you don't know, find a guy that does. If you're a guy and don't know, find your balls.
 
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After watching the video, I see what everyone's talking about. Now if this was Google glasses with the equivalent of a Haynes Techbook loaded into it and someone was pulling an engine head, that would be different.
 
Can't wait until they have something like this for the amateur surgeons out there. :rolleyes:
 
Lots of hipsters will buy this just to show their friends what their iPad can do.
 
HardOCP - "Proving that people are just as damn dumb as we were afraid they were." :)

I appreciate that this app is a building block for even better technology. And as someone above said if you could have this thing walk you through tearing down a modern engine including taking a head apart? You'd really have something. Torque order, socket size for the bolts you can barely see or reach, showing HOW to get the tool on certain parts that are hard to reach. Yeah.

But for OIL, WATER and TRANNY FLUID? A still image is faster and more useful.

For this kind of situation, having a rapid ID of the car that brings up a still of where this stuff is would be handy for many. Full augmented reality? Unnecessary and cumbersome.
 
Let's face it. If you drive a car, and you (male or female) need this app - you shouldn't be driving. PERIOD.
 
a full-scale app that shows all parts and breakdown, plus service options, would be so absurdly costly and such an enormous undertaking.....I don't know that we are going to see one pretty much ever

this thing is just a proof of concept
 
Haha, this kind of reminds me of the Matrix if this app ran on google glass. 'Computer, download basic-car maintenance.' 30-second download later 'I know kung fu...err fluid changing'.
 
Yoda4561 said:
I wouldn't mind a version that gave torque specs on all fasteners and told you where all the little vacuum lines and assorted tubery is supposed to go.
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That would be awesome.
Ashbringer said:
Get Torque for Android and you'll have all the info you'll need about your car. Along with this cheap OBD2 bluetooth adapter, and you're set.

All that application does is tell you where all the basic fluids are in your engine. If you don't know, find a guy that does. If you're a guy and don't know, find your balls.
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I have both and they're great. I've been troubleshooting neighbors/friends cars for over a year now.
Phoenix333 said:
After watching the video, I see what everyone's talking about. Now if this was Google glasses with the equivalent of a Haynes Techbook loaded into it and someone was pulling an engine head, that would be different.
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Holy shit yes!
WBurchnall said:
Haha, this kind of reminds me of the Matrix if this app ran on google glass. 'Computer, download basic-car maintenance.' 30-second download later 'I know kung fu...err fluid changing'.
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Don't I wish. But without the Google Glass. Don't wanna look like a glasshole.
 
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As a proof of concept it is interesting.

I mean, that is what it is, right? proof of concept? it can't be that worthless if it is a fully fledged app, no? /loses hope in humanity.
 
this, within google glass-type eye-wear, is probably the future for car techs, and a lot of other similar type of jobs. Some already use the electronic step-by-step guides on a tablet, but this of course would be faster/safer.

So, +1 on the proof of concept... it'll only get better if people find it's usefulness.

-1 on the sexist remarks though. you guys still living in 1950s or something :p
 
Steve, cut the sexism if you can't make it legitimately funny. And that was downright awful. (Plus it was sexist.)
 
lol the App even showed the "AR" hand pouring the oil in the wrong way (spout down)

As for the App itself... all of this is clearly laid out in the instruction manual (and likely on the sticker under the hood). Cool proof of concept but not really that helpful or informative.
 
Even if you are a great mechanic, something like this would be very useful when you first start wrenching on a vehicle you've never seen before. And yes, Steve continues to make the [H] as classy as ever.
 
Assuming its true on average (opinions on that aside), is it sexism to point it out?
 
"if you are a guy, you have no business under the hood of ANY car if you need this app"

I dunno, ever remove a timing belt on a modern car? Pretty much comes down to...1) Remove everything in the engine copmpartment...because its in your way. 2) remove the wheel on that side. 3) Remove timing belt 4) reverse process to reassemble.
 
Lets see; you could buy a iPad and the app; or you could read the operators manual to the car and find where the dipstick is. Maybe look at the bright yellow thing that say DIPSTICK under the hood.
It always worked of me.
 
weebling1 said:
"if you are a guy, you have no business under the hood of ANY car if you need this app"

I dunno, ever remove a timing belt on a modern car? Pretty much comes down to...1) Remove everything in the engine copmpartment...because its in your way. 2) remove the wheel on that side. 3) Remove timing belt 4) reverse process to reassemble.
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There are more and more modern cars that have timing chains in lieu of timing belts. If someone has never adjusted the tension on a timing chain before and have no specs to the proper tension, how would an average person know? This app will probably say something about it that not everyone would know.

Ever deal with 8 injectors on a 4 cylinder boxer engine? I know I haven't; port and direct injectors are something completely new to me and I have no business fooling around with something I was never trained to service. I suppose that makes me less of a man with the blanketting statement that if I need a reference I should not be under any hood of a car.

It pains me to think that some people find it masculine to mess things up and have it half broken and half working because it took a "man" to DIY and to throw the manuals aside.
 
For those complaining about sexism, go take some Midol.

How many times have you seen a woman continue to drive a car even when the oil light is on?
 
tubular said:
^Still enjoying the sexism
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Finger said:
Steve, cut the sexism if you can't make it legitimately funny. And that was downright awful. (Plus it was sexist.)
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Stereotypes usually exist for a reason. If not, they would not be recognized as such. If you think this to be incorrect, reflect on the ratio of male to female automotive mechanics that you've encountered in your life. It's not sexist if it's true.
 
Phoenix333 said:
It's not sexist if it's true.
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Well, it's clearly a joke, first of all... but to assume a women does not know how to take care of a car and requires hand-holding is not only sexist it's prejudice as well, and only makes you look like a little weenie trying hard to reinforce his so-called "masculinity"...

imho, of course
 
Phoenix333 said:
Stereotypes usually exist for a reason. If not, they would not be recognized as such. If you think this to be incorrect, reflect on the ratio of male to female automotive mechanics that you've encountered in your life. It's not sexist if it's true.
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Ironically enough, of the 3 certified mechanics that I have personal relationships with (friends and family) 2 of them are females.

"Stereotypes exist for a reason" is used frequently as a defense for sexism or racism. Simply because the stereotype is perpetuated in modern society does not make it true, and allowing it to continue will do no favors for the (generally larger) groups of people who are NOT a part of that stereotype. Mexicans aren't all day laborers, blacks aren't all criminals, and women aren't all ignorant of anything considered socially as "manly."

Outside of the groups, which deliberately perpetuate these stereotypes either to exclude women or to simply objectify them(see: any hot rod magazine with a woman in a bikini on the cover), of people interested in cars, I would be willing to be that the average woman knows just as much about them as the average man does. Automobiles are mysterious to many people, not just women.
 
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