Let the jokes begin.
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Who needs a key? IPhone app unlocks and starts car
By Chris Woodyard, USA TODAY
A California company Tuesday will announce an iPhone application and car receiver that will enable users to lock, unlock and remotely start their car with the phone rather than the car's key fob.
The Viper SmartStart is the latest example of automotive electronics functions migrating into Apple iPhone and other smartphones, including turn-by-turn directions or locating the closest gas station.
Such ideas are a challenge for automakers and aftermarket suppliers for whom advanced auto electronics have been highly profitable.
"The days of these dedicated products we could put in our cars are rapidly coming to an end unless those products e
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The SmartStart remote-start and lock app lets the owner be really remote. Mike Simmons, executive vice president of Directed Electronics, the parent of the maker, has demonstrated starting his car in California using an iPhone in Kansas City.
Just what everybody needs, the ability to start you're car from several states away. 😕
uscingulair said:
do you have to have reception to start your car? If so that could be a big problem
Hence "Let the jokes begin." 🤣
As with any auto starter the only thing that happens when you auto start your car is that the car TURNS ON. To actually drive the car the key must be in the ignition in the on position.
Cranking a vehicle is one thing and can be done with a screwdriver. Turning the ignition cylinder to the start and then the run position is not enough to get it to run, because the transponder in some keys (Fords since about 199😎 is required to initiale the fuel injection system.
The auto-start system wuold have to duplicate the function of the ignition key transponder.
Gregg
Gregg (not short for Gregory)
That is why I said the auto-start device would have to duplicate the key transponder.
Simply cranking a post-1998 (somewhere around there, anyway) Ford and feeding power to the ignition system won't make it start. The coded key has to be in the ignition, or your auto-start device has to be able to emulate the coded key.
Gregg
Now on with the jokes, like I'd like to warm my car up but I don't have any service.
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You could have saved a lot of trouble by mentioning that in the first place, right after your "Do you have no concept of how an auto starter actually works?" comment.
Gregg
Using my cellular phone outside my locked vehicle, I call my wife many miles away. I ask her to hold her spare car key near her phone and press the Door Open button.
Voila! My car doors open remotely in response.
Several people that I work with tried it in my office parking lot. It worked with my Accord and with other vehicle brands, using various cellphones.
Of course this doesn't apply to starting the engine.