Author came very close to demonstrating some other cool Torque feature such as coupling the GPS and car position data to the mass of the car (which you manually

Author came very close to demonstrating some other cool Torque feature such as coupling the GPS and car position data to the mass of the car (which you manually enter) and torque outputs a fairly accurate measure of instant or peak measured horsepower. Oh look my ancient '97 Saturn really does accelerate at 120 horsepower as calculated based off 2nd derivative of position and input mass. And, likewise, by continuous monitor of the stats and doing some very simple timing, torque can output 0-60, 0-100, quarter mile, etc, you hit reset, it waits until the throttle position sensor is slammed or it sees over 0 mph then times until it sees 60 or 100 or whatever. I think it can do braking distance the same way although its been awhile since I tried. Its interesting to watch the other readouts like coolant temperature. How long does it REALLY take a car to warm up in the winter vs the summer and stuff like that. I believe I have the same no-name adapter the author has, and it works well. One common discussion topic for torque users is finding a BT adapter that auto powers off when the car shuts off, so you can leave the device plugged in all the time if you want without killing the car battery. And a final additional commentary is the community is always discussing / trading map files. So on my wife's prius if you download the special prius map file you can do deeper diagnosis and see the voltage across battery #11 or whatever which is moderately interesting, but without the map file it doesn't know how to map the additional telemetry packets into individual cell voltages or whatever. Google will help. Not all cars have enhanced mapping data of course.