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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This is great. I am really intrigued by the Iphone, however I am tied to Verizon. Maybe one day...
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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. 😕
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Needs? No. I would not go that far. I think it would be a nice feature to have though.
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The remote start application could change the whole meaning of a BUTT CALL.
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not good. if you LOST that Iphone....you may have just lost your car too ; (
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do you have to have reception to start your car? If so that could be a big problem
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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." 🤣
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The Iphone is not always going to be tied to AT&T's network. I think it is good to see it develop apps.
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Do you have no concept of how an auto starter actually works? Maybe you should drop the circa 1980 junk bucket your driving and step into the new millennium.
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.
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.
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How, pray tell, do you start a modern car that has fuel injection, etc, and ignition systems tied to particular transponders in the ignition keys, unless the key is in the ignition?
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
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
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Nope! I've had mine for 50 years. Thank my sister for the double-G at the end. My parents ran out of names, especially because they thought I was going to have an "innie" but had an "outtie" instead, and my sister picked the name.
Gregg (not short for Gregory)
Gregg (not short for Gregory)
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No, I have not, but I worked on Ford ignition systems for 18 years.
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
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
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Enough with the technical jibber jabber. They copy the code and a ring with a wire goes around the ignition cylinder. The wire runs back to the auto start module, it all simulates a ‘key in’ condition.
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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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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There, that was easy, wasn't it?
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
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
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I have tried this and it works.
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.
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.
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