Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by efortis 1160 days ago
Startup idea:

- Crawl the nhtsa.gov technical bulletins (manufacturer communications [pdfs])

- Make them searchable (good enough)

- Some AI (optional)

---

What for?

For example, the mechanic or used car buyer searches for:

`Oil leak S5 2019`

Response: https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2019/MC-10155709-9999.pdf

1 comments

Seems like Google is already capable of that?
Only with PDFs that have been exposed on another website.

Why? Inspect the network traffic when expanding an `nhsta` item, and notice that it requests `api.nhsta.gov/...` for the PDF link.