Despite being advertised for diagnosing serious issues with the car you own, the on-board diagnostics (OBD) capability built into every car produced since 1996 has another major purpose.
At the moment, it detects emissions issues and checks the engine light which makes you, the driver, invest money into repairing a system, that, in most of the cases, does not affect the way the car engine runs or how it drives.
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