Using a microcontroller to change our car's annoying default settings

[Hanno Labuschagne]

Using a microcontroller to change our car's annoying default settings

Our car's default settings annoyed us so much that we roped in a programmer to help us program a mini-computer that would automatically change them whenever I set off.

We have owned a GWM Ora 03 for about a year and have generally been happy with its capabilities and features.

 

[Mekon]

All these driver aids has made a generation of idiotic drivers that are not paying attention and think the car will sort things out if they make little "whoopsies" as one dumb ass auntie put it when she almost sideswiped me. Totally ignoring her blind spot warning light in her side mirror.

 

[FiestaST]

Great read, applaud/Claude the outta the box thinking.

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

sounds similar to Carly, the one for BMW,
dont know if its available here?

would love to find similar for asian cars, as I bet there are dozens of features hidden behind weird interfaces and engineering mode tricks in the infotainment screens.

 

[Nobody Important]

Using a microcontroller to change our car's annoying default settings

Our car's default settings annoyed us so much that we roped in a programmer to help us program a mini-computer that would automatically change them whenever I set off.

We have owned a GWM Ora 03 for about a year and have generally been happy with its capabilities and features.

This is the kind of article I'd like more of from mybroadband. A Popular Mechanics for this age.

@Jan please sir, may I have some more?

 

[Crowley]

I use a OBDEleven to change settings on ze German cars. Not sure if there is a equivalent thing for Korean cars?

 

[1am7h30n3]

That's fun and useful! Nicely done!

 

[SauRoNZA]

I use a OBDEleven to change settings on ze German cars. Not sure if there is a equivalent thing for Korean cars?

Chinese.

But almost certainly.

Then again they also run Linux/Android so you can hack them directly in many cases.

 

[ebendl]

It's a cool "hack". So I take it you can test out if it will work by just plugging in a mouse or keyboard first and seeing if that gives you some control?

If that works then it is a safe way to modify settings on many cars (e.g. whoever runs Android)

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

I use a OBDEleven to change settings on ze German cars. Not sure if there is a equivalent thing for Korean cars?

Same, I'm trying with torque app for Android, even tried the add ones that don't seem to work.

 

[ronz91]

awesome article @Hanno Labuschagne