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OnStar provides all sorts of nifty things. Lock your keys in the car? OnStar can unlock your doors.
by lrm242 11y ago
OnStar provides all sorts of nifty things. Lock your keys in the car? OnStar can unlock your doors.
- andy_ppp 11y agoAll those "nifty" things are potentially available to hackers too though!
- shultays 11y agoI am not sure if you are joking or not, I wouldn't want my car to be opened without keys. Especially after such news
- Loughla 11y agoYou wouldn't want to be able to open your car door if you lock your keys in it, without needing to worry about whether or not the locksmith is going to mess up your door? It's a matter of good idea, bad implementation. They push for features, they push for ideas, they push for new, new, new, better, better, better. But no one thinks about safety and security until something like this happens.
- shultays 11y agoI would use the spare key. Maybe it is me but I don't trust my phone with my car.
- saiya-jin 11y agono, I wouldn't. exactly because of f*uckups like these, that always come with features for lazy or stupid. if I ever, ever be forced to buy such pathetic excuse for a car, first thing I'll do is find sim card and burn it. next will be wi-fi module. heck, I'll even pay some garage to turn it off forever. I am software engineer and that's why I don't want anybody messing up with crucial systems. It's so easy to break things, there were quite a few reports about horrible quality assurance processes in car manufacturers... just NO. I buy car, and I'll be happy with v1.0 of firmware, no updates, thank you
- realusername 11y agoIt should not be possible to lock the keys inside the car since you use the keys from the outside to lock it.
- dangrossman 11y agoI have never been in a car you can't lock from the inside.
- malka 11y agoI have not seen a car where I can lock my key inside in... idk 10 years maybe ? edit : I meant keys inside the car but no one inside.
- realusername 11y agoYeah, that's what I meant, the last car I was able to do this was a first model Peugeot 205 (25 years old now), even with a 20 year old model, it was already not possible.
- lfowles 11y agoOn my (2009, no power locks) car, I manually toggle the lock after opening the door and close it. Locked. I did lock myself out of a 2009 car with power locks though, but only because I was borrowing it and no one knew the combo for the keypad. Buuuuut... we're talking about OnStar remote access, so that's not very applicable. :)
- balabaster 11y agoHave you accidentally locked a baby in the car in temperatures exceeding 90 or 100 degrees? Judging by the amount of times I hear this on the news, I can show you a whole market of people that find this useful. Calling a locksmith or someone that can break into your car takes time as well as being concerned about potential cosmetic damage. If OnStar can open your car remotely with a single phone call inside of a minute to save a helpless child from being cooked, there's your market. "Will someone please think of the children..."
- glandium 11y agoOnStart opening your care remotely requires more things in the car than preventing the car from locking if the key is inside in the first place would. By the way, I can't lock my car if the key is inside, and the car doesn't have a remote opening feature.
- kofejnik 11y agoOne thing I can't understand: a $500 phone can unlock itself with my fingerprint, why can't a $50k car? I'd trust that a lot more than a minimum-wage phone operator somewhere.
- kofejnik 11y agoare you telling me that I can call some number and if I'm persuasive enough, they will unlock your car remotely and maybe even start the engine? Nice feature
- robbiep 11y agotbere was some good product placement of this feature in die hard 3
- inversionOf 11y agoAnd then what? You can't actually do anything with the car without the keys. Steal the goods in it? Well most thieves just smash a window rather than relying upon social engineering, presuming that even worked. OnStar started as a data connection for diagnostics and emergency services -- it reports back various diagnostic details, and gives your location and accident details in a serious event. Once they had the cellular data connection they added utility for things like lock out assistance and remote start, and locating your car (e.g. in a big parking lot).
- balabaster 11y agoSmashing a window draws attention, social engineering when done right does not until it's way too late... certainly nobody watching in the parking lot would think twice about a guy on a cellphone getting into "his" car. They would however think twice and may perhaps even alert authorities or take your picture if they saw you smashing a window to get into what's quite probably someone else's car.