The automobile repair industry associations and there are several of them often do PR campaigns explaining how many needed repairs go un-fixed, and just how much preventative maintenance goes unchecked. Not only does it hurt the industry's bottom line, but it also becomes quite costly to automobile owners, not only leading to break-downs of major components, but also in fuel costs as the car, truck, or SUV runs inefficiently.
Since today's automobiles have so many electronic sensors, they should be able to adequately predict the life span of various components of the car, based on a database of all the cars of that type, year, and model, with a similar motor, and accessories. Such an artificial intelligence system hooked up to predictive software could easily suggest Car Repairs which were more apropos than what is listed in the operations manual for car owners.
After all, how many times have you taken your car in to check the fluid level, or get a "check engine light" to turn off - only to find out that those repairs, or warnings, or fluid levels didn't need any servicing at all. As our cars get smarter, perhaps so too should the back-end system which runs the diagnostics, along with predictive software based on numerous points of data. You see, people drive their car differently, and some drive them harder than others.
Some people use the brake more, the clutch too much, or they drive in a very dusty or dirty environment. Others may drive in bumper-to-bumper traffic each day on their commute to work, while others put on mostly freeway miles, while driving the car in overdrive. It makes a big difference obviously. Some folks tow trailers, boats, or equipment in their business, while others never lend their car to anyone else and baby them.
Based on their driving, and other cars of the same type in the same type of environment we could easily create an artificially intelligent predictive software system to suggest the duly needed repairs, and which preventive maintenance items could be foregone for one or two more cycles - by doing this we could save money for consumers, and allow them to get more bang for their buck on their auto repairs.
A major auto company already has cloud computing and/or big data centers, with lots of IT personnel and computer systems. It wouldn't take much to add this to their program currently. Indeed I hope you will please consider all this and think on it.
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