Police said some thieves are plugging a high-tech device into a vehicle’s on-board diagnostics (ODB) port, to be able to start the engine and steal the car.

The Bluedriver is also not compatible with third-party apps that need a direct OBD2 connection. Regardless, we were still ...

The current version of the on-board diagnostics (OBD) protocol provides real time data as well as fault diagnostics, thanks to the numerous sensors connected to the data network in the modern vehicle.

Whatever you did, though, it’s likely that one major event passed you by without a thought: The standardization of on-board vehicle diagnostics (in the US), otherwise known as OBD-II.