AutoBot app tracks your car if it tries to roll without you

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We smell a Hasbro lawsuit coming with this one, but for now AutoBot is
a funky name for a potentially great iPhone and Android app. Working
in concert with a Bluetooth OBD-II dongle (not unlike the Superchips
Vivid), it lets you diagnose engine troubles, keep track of
maintenance, and locate your car via GPS coordinates -- useful for
when some Decepticon tries to make off with your ride or when you're
simply running low on energon and can't remember where you parked. It
can even be configured to automatically send a text to loved ones
should you get into an accident, specifying your GPS coordinates and
ruining any hope of hitting the body shop before dad finds out. The
Mavizon-developed app recently won a startup competition at i-Stage
2010 and sadly isn't slated to be available until 2012, but we should
be getting an early look at CES. When it does ship it'll cost $300 for
the hardware and the software, though an extra fee will be required if
you want to banish pop-up ads back to Cybertron.