I can’t speak to his rationale, but all of these are relatively affordable vehicles that take advantage of a lot of the newer technologies that tie into the CAN

I can’t speak to his rationale, but all of these are relatively affordable vehicles that take advantage of a lot of the newer technologies that tie into the CAN bus. Additionally, they expose interfaces to many of the onboard computers connected via CAN through the DLC connector, and off-the-shelf hardware exists for Toyota and Honda vehicles to expose the rest of the bus through the DLC connector, which is not particularly useful for typical scan tools, but it does allow for comma.io’s panda dongle to dump pretty much all of the information being passed around on the CAN bus.