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admit it the instruction manual probably never come out of your car's glove box and there's probably a lot of things about your vehicle that you're feeling really sort of mystified about well Hyundai's got a new functionality as part of its car care app that's going to help drivers interact with and learn about their vehicles it's an augmented reality function and it works simply by pointing your camera at your car so the weight of the app works is that you select an area of your car you want to learn about and then you point your camera at the car after it's recognized if you get an augmented reality overlay of various things about your vehicle that you can learn right now we're looking at the engine bay so if you want to for example learn how to check your engine oil level you can click on that and get an animated 3d overlay that shows you exactly what to do though these are all going to be very basic maintenance things like checking your coolant and washer level maybe changing an air filter but there are things that you can do to basically maintain your vehicle that your average user may not be comfortable with and for those who don't want to necessarily get under the hood of their car the augmented reality functionality also works in the cabin you just point the phone at your dashboard and after it recognizes what you're looking at it'll give you these again animated overlays of the various functions of your car these things like the steering wheel controls your instrument cluster and what it can do very complicated things like the infotainment system actually link out to youtube videos that will explain for example how to pair your smartphone via bluetooth it's all very easy to use and pretty much anybody can pick this app up and go Hyundai says the augmented reality function is going to roll out as part of its car care app in the next couple of months so December or January 2016 the first car supported will be this one right here the 2015 Hyundai Sonata but the automaker says that it will be rolling it out to all of its 2015 and 2016 models across the brand