Apparatuses, systems, and methods for remotely capturing automotive vehicle diagnostic information, monitoring, and controlling

A vehicle diagnostic system comprising:

• a housing structure;
• an electrical connector that is at least one of coupled to and extending from a portion of the housing structure;
• and
• one or more computers and one or more storage devices positioned in the housing structure and communicably coupled to the electrical connector, the one or more storage devices comprising stored instructions that are operable, when executed by the one or more computers, to cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising:
• determining a vehicle identification number (VIN) for a vehicle connected to the electrical connector;
• causing a request including the VIN to be transmitted to a remote server system;
• receiving, at the one or more storage devices and in response to transmission of the request to the remote server system, a vehicle electronic configuration (VEC) file generated based, at least in part, on the vehicle identification number;
• identifying, via the vehicle electronic configuration file, a parameter identification (PID) code, in response to receiving a generic request for vehicle operational data;
• determining a vehicle control module to access based on the PID code identified;
• and
• obtaining the vehicle operational data from the vehicle control module based on the PID code identified.