General Car Conversation 2024 - part 2
Dec 4, 2024 | 08:11 PM
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From: Alberta
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Originally Posted by
Margate330
Using a phone to lock & unlock car sounds like the car is coupled tightly to the phone or app.
It works flawlessly.
Dec 4, 2024 | 08:17 PM
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From: FL
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Originally Posted by
LeX2K
It works flawlessly.
Yes sir, I don't doubt that my friend.
It's just a personal preference to consider the coupling. 🤓
Dec 4, 2024 | 08:42 PM
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From: Alberta
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Originally Posted by
Margate330
Yes sir, I don't doubt that my friend.
From a technical perspective why is a key fob more secure than a smart phone.
Dec 4, 2024 | 09:17 PM
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From: FL
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Originally Posted by
LeX2K
From a technical perspective why is a key fob more secure than a smart phone.
It's not. 🖖
It's just a personal preference.
I come from a world of very expensive machines so that may bias me a little.
No software coupling to the OEM for machines to run, my cardinal rule. Lol 😄
Last edited by Margate330; Dec 4, 2024 at 09:19 PM .
Dec 4, 2024 | 09:23 PM
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From: Alberta
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Originally Posted by
Margate330
No software coupling to the OEM for machines to run, my cardinal rule. Lol 😄
You will surrender eventually. Or do what I do own a modern car and some ancient ones, hedge your bet.
Dec 4, 2024 | 09:28 PM
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From: FL
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Originally Posted by
LeX2K
You will surrender eventually. Or do what I do own a modern car and some ancient ones, hedge your bet.
I can do that, good idea!
I have trust issues after what I've seen. Lol 😂
#workingonit
Dec 4, 2024 | 09:53 PM
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From: Alberta
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Originally Posted by
Margate330
I have trust issues after what I've seen. Lol 😂
Can always move north a few miles and become Amish.
Dec 4, 2024 | 09:59 PM
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From: FL
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Originally Posted by
LeX2K
Can always move north a few miles and become Amish.
Oh no you didn't!
Skipped the blackberry memes and went down the amish road...
I'm closer to a cave man actually. Lol
That's how much I hate computers but I love them too.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 11:40 PM
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From: Ohio
Quote:
Originally Posted by
LeX2K
It works flawlessly.
Oh it certainly does
Dec 5, 2024 | 06:08 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by
LeX2K
You will surrender eventually. Or do what I do own a modern car and some ancient ones, hedge your bet.
yeah and now not only phone can do stuff, but apple watch too!
Dec 5, 2024 | 06:26 AM
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From: Knoxville, TN
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Originally Posted by
bitkahuna
I wouldn't turn one down but I'm not crazy about the looks. That gen to me looks like 3 different people designed the car and never spoke.
I bet it's a hoot to drive, though.
Dec 5, 2024 | 06:47 AM
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From: Maryland
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Originally Posted by
LeX2K
Still stuck in the past thinking, the very fact that a scan tool is needed to program a key is the problem.
It’s not “stuck in the past thinking” it’s simply the way those keys work. You can’t change the way cars already designed and built work.
I am all for phone as key…
Dec 5, 2024 | 06:52 AM
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From: Knoxville, TN
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Originally Posted by
SW17LS
It’s not “stuck in the past thinking” it’s simply the way those keys work. You can’t change the way cars already designed and built work.
What happens if your phone dies and you don't have the fob or card or whatever? Locked out?
Dec 5, 2024 | 06:56 AM
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From: Maryland
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Originally Posted by
AJT123
What happens if your phone dies and you don't have the fob or card or whatever? Locked out?
The phone has to be REALLY dead for NFC not to work. You just hold the phone up to the door and go the ignition and it will still work.
Dec 5, 2024 | 07:20 AM
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From: IL
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Originally Posted by
AJT123
What happens if your phone dies and you don't have the fob or card or whatever? Locked out?
Nope, still works fine:
https://www.tomsguide.com/us/iphone-...ews-28114.html
The only times it doesn't work is if you intentionally turn your phone off; or if the phone dies and then you don't charge it for several weeks, such that it can no longer even tell you that it's dead.
That said, how often does your phone die? I think the last time it happened to me was 2016 or so.
Last edited by geko29; Dec 5, 2024 at 07:40 AM .
