Patent ID: 8355836

Claim:
An automobile, comprising: a storage, wherein information stored in the storage includes an interactive owner's manual, use information, service history, and sensor history, an interface coupled to the storage, wherein a user to use the interface to generate a request, wherein the request includes selection of a part in the automobile from the interactive owner's manual, a computer in the automobile operative to receive a request from the interface based on the part selected by the user, a sensor operative to generate real-time data about the part in the automobile; and wherein the computer in the automobile operative to, receive the real-time data from the sensor if the request is for the real-time data about the part, access the interactive owner's manual for the use information on using the part, if the request is for the use information about the part, access the service or sensor history of the automobile from the storage, if the request is for history data from the storage, and send a message to a display, wherein the message includes the real-time data or the use information or the service history or the sensor history based on the request received.