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ETI
Activity Update
Charlie Gorman - ETI
- October, 2013
This year's Winter
Tech Week will be in Newport Beach, California. Dates are Tuesday,
December 3 to Thursday December 5, 2013.
The Appreciation Dinner will take place at the Marconi Automotive
Museum and Foundation for Kids in Tustin, CA.
Our website is up and running and you can register now. Click here
for more info and access to the registration forms.
Vehicle manufacturer agendas have been recently updated. They are
not complete yet. We expect agendas from more VMs and we expect
the current agendas to expand. Click here to
go directly to the VM agenda page
Please Note:
Because of vehicle
manufacturer non-disclosure requirements and ETI regulations, Winter
Tech Week is only available to ETI Full Members and invited guests.
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This year we plan to do something a little different regarding OEM
agendas. I will be visiting each of the Winter Tech Week
participants at their place of business during the second half of
October. Our hope is that we can get a little better idea of the
material and the time needed to present it.
Summer
Tech Week is
in the very early planning stages. We are happy to report that we
will be using the newly refurbished Walter P. Chrysler Museum for the
Appreciation Banquet. We have not chosen a headquarter hotel yet.
Summer Tech Week 2014 will take place on the week of June 9, 2014.
The new
TEK-NET Library is up and running and I'm happy to report that
everything is running smoothly. Instead of sending Tech Week
disks to each participant we uploaded the files to the library and
created a shared folder. This went smoothly and with very few
exceptions everybody was able to have much quicker access to their
files.
Since Summer tech Week, we have received new files from Toyota.
If you are a scan tool member of ETI and haven't done so already,
make sure you visit the site and download the newest Toyota data stream
information.
If you do not have access but should, please contact Trisha at the ETI
office and she will take care of you trishad@etools.org, or
815-520-1933
ETI has joined with
several other trade associations and companies to form a telematics
task force. The objective for the Task Force is to gather all
relevant stake holders in the aftermarket industry for the purpose of
devising an industry strategy for dealing with "the connected vehicle"
and formulating a plan to carry out that strategy with vehicle
manufacturers and other interested parties. Put another way, the
Task Force is to figure out what it is we want (relative to telematics)
and how we want to go about getting it.
Mission:
To empower vehicle owners to direct the service of their vehicles to
locations of their choice, and to ensure that those locations have
complete access to fully documented vehicle diagnostic data supplied
via current and future data portals, including hard-wired connections
such as the SAE J1962 connector and on-board or hand-held device
telematics systems.
Issue:
While the development of telematics provides benefits to the motoring
public, it also raises significant privacy concerns for car owners and
could impact the availability of competitive vehicle repair.
Central to these concerns is that the car owner has no control over
where the information generated by their vehicle is sent. In
fact, as original equipment telematics services are currently
configured across vehicle manufacturers, all information generated by
vehicles’ telematics systems, including repair information and GPS
data, is sent to a manufacturer in order to direct service business to
their franchised dealers. In most cases, car owners do not have
the option of choosing where any of the information from their vehicle
is transmitted, nor do they have a clear means to turn off the
transmission of data. Depriving drivers of choice in service and
degrading competition in auto repair threatens to raise costs for
consumers and threaten the viability of the aftermarket industry, which
is an important cog in the American economy..
Solution:
In light of the unprecedented power of telematics technology to access
driver and vehicle information, it is critical that once a vehicle is
purchased by an individual, the car owner, and not the car company,
should determine where the information from those systems is sent, if
to anyone. Such action is needed to uphold consumers’ expectation
of privacy and choice regarding their personal data and to maintain a
healthy competitive landscape for vehicle repair.
Therefore,
requirements must be put in place that:
Require car owner
consent and choice on where information from their vehicle is
transmitted so as to ensure consumer control over the privacy and use
of personal data generated by a vehicle.
Mandate that car
companies build telematics systems with the capability to communicate
data using a standardized interface so that the information can be read
and used by service providers of the vehicle owner’s choice, beyond
just the vehicle’s manufacturer. This action will ensure a full
range of choice for car owners as to where vehicle data are sent and
how they can be used.
Global considerations:
On October 10, 2013 the Task Force, including several ETI members will
be meeting with our European counterparts in Washington DC. I
will file a report in the next newsletter.
NASTF Report:
The NASTF General
Meeting will be held in Las Vegas as part of the AAPEX show at the
Sands Convention center at 1:00 PM on November 6th in Casanova Room
605. Click here for the agenda
GM’s BOB STEWART TO ADDRESS COUNTERFEIT TOOLS NOV 6 - The Fall 2013
General Meeting of the National Automotive Service Task Force (NASTF)
is Wednesday, November 6, 2013 and one of the important topics on the
afternoon agenda is counterfeit tools. Bob Stewart, Manager of
Aftermarket Service Support for General Motors (pictured) was recently
charged with coordinating the GM response to this threat and has agreed
to share his knowledge with the independent aftermarket in a session
titled “Who’s CheatingWhom". Click
here to read the article.
Also there will be a talk from Greg Brannon, Director of Automotive
Engineering and Industry Relations of AAA. He will present his
organization’s perspective on connecting with AAA’s 53 million members
and their vehicles.
This presentation will include:
• Emerging technologies of the connected vehicle
• The implications for consumers and the aftermarket
of vehicle-generated data
• Consumer understanding of related
risks/opportunities
• Evolving trends and practices of AAA’s Approved
Auto Repair network.
Nominating Committee slate has been completed
We are still unable to get HD OEMs officially involved with the SIR
process.
Preparations are underway for NASTF@ATE2014 Board, General meeting and
exhibit, March 20‐22, 2014 in Seattle
Still awaiting BMW intro of VSP Registry participation
Marketing Surveys:
There will be two
surveys done this year and the results will be presented at ToolTech
next Spring. The first will be a new Collision Repair
Survey. We will ask some of the same questions as the last
Collision survey with the idea of seeing what has changed. Joe
Blanton of Car-O-Liner volunteered to add questions regarding new
materials methods and procedures. Joe has completed his task and
we are now reassembling the questions for distribution to the committee
for review.
The second Survey is
going to be on telematics again. This survey is going to be more
difficult to complete. The last time we did a telematics survey
there weren't very many questions and the results only proved that
aftermarket shops had little knowledge of telematics. We are a
little afraid that the situation may not have changed much since
then. Secondly we are concerned that perhaps we should be looking
for ways to find out what motorists think about telematics since they
will be the actual consumers of diagnostics and maintenance over
telematics.
Questions have to be given to our Survey developer in mid January in order to have a final results in time for ToolTech.
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