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Had the same experience in Spain. Turned off the car in a location with bad phone signal and the car wouldn't start anymore. Not even creating a wifi Hotspot wi
by montenegrohugo 7y ago
Had the same experience in Spain. Turned off the car in a location with bad phone signal and the car wouldn't start anymore. Not even creating a wifi Hotspot with the phone (funnily enough our phones did have a weak signal. Ludicrous how a big car can have a weaker antenna than a weight-size-optimised phone).
After hours of talking with support, they finally sent someone to tow us to the nearest city. The car then had reception and finally started again.
- tobltobs 7y agoHow did you try to tell the car the network name and password? Whispering into the rear mirrors?
- montenegrohugo 7y agoWhat? The car of course had an on board computer, as most modern cars do. I do not understand where your sarcastic tone is coming from.
- spuz 7y agoThe point is, how does the car know to connect to your wifi hotspot when it's normally configured to use a 3g/4g connection? I have never used a smart car so it sounds like a reasonable question to ask.
- montenegrohugo 7y agoActually you're right. It's been a while (almost ~2years) so I didn't fully remember. The car did NOT connect to the phone Hotspot, iirc, and that was one of the things that irked me. If a phone can connect to both wifi and 3G/LTE/whatever, why shouldn't a 50.000$ car? Especially if that car necessitates being online for its function.
- moooo99 7y agoBecause your phone is designed to do that, a car is not. Besides, iirc the most car services don't even use the car hardware itself to enable their service. They usually install secondary systems for communication with their servers somewhere inside the car and then communicate with the cars controllers. So its not even a matter of how expensive the car is, its a matter of how well designed the rental companies hardware is.