When will Tacoma get bluetooth connectivity?

I do agree: they have little or no motivation to provide these features. It also likely helps ensure a strong "relationship" between customer and dealership, which in turn keeps the dealerships happy with the manufacturers also.

 

Spot on.

 

I am trying to fight against that tooth-n-nail. I would like to help Uber-ize automotive maintenance by expanding access to information and open-sourcing. I see that coming in the future. There will be only so much in the future manufacturers of anything (not just vehicles) will be able to keep their data secret, there will be aftermarket solution to hacking into any piece of hardware and as for software it is already easy. E.g. jailbreaking iPhone

 

E.g. are there aftermarket ECUs that you can replace the OEM so that it shares its data via Bluetooth, since the OEM won't do that ?

 

I never thought it'd be easy

 

This is exactly what you got and this is exactly why there's a standardized OBDII port to begin with.

Otherwise, manufacturers can require each shop to buy their own customized proprietary $20,000 engine interface diagnostics computer.

That you have to read it in standardized OBD-II format instead of Bluetooth, when there are commonly available converters available at low price, is just whining.

 

well, not only that but since emissions is done via code pulls and sensor-ready checks, standardization was/is necessary. In terms of core competency, I don't think even money hungry manufacturers want to waste time supporting a proprietary diagnostics system.

 

The Uber reference was made to denote a sort of liberation, if you will, from the traditional limitations of accessing services, data, and evading rigid regulations that were possible due to the lack of adequate technology in the past. So it was perhaps a metaphor to what control over our lives us Average Joes can attain by using technology that is at our fingertips