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I'm with you and not a good representative of the target market for keyless fobs. slovette and aetherspawn give good use cases for some benefits. I still ask ho
by smcnally 7y ago
I'm with you and not a good representative of the target market for keyless fobs. slovette and aetherspawn give good use cases for some benefits. I still ask how much of a real-world problem to be solved was sticking a physical key into a steering column? What were the stated goals for developing NFC ignition fobs en re drivers, manufacturers, and the automotive industry?(1)
Apart from inevitable consequences like from this article, are benefits outweighing other intended, unintended, and inevitable consequences like these for most people?
- Forgetting car keys more often per new learned behaviors
- Fob batteries dying
- Replacing lost / broken fobs is more costly in time, money, and hassle
- Leaving fobs in the car more often
(1) Understood keyless entry / alarm / remote starting are clear benefits
- 0xb100db1ade 7y ago> Leaving fobs in the car more often OTOH, it's much harder to leave a key in the car when you never have to take it out of your pocket in the first place.
- neuralRiot 7y agoNow i find the opposite situation happening and more difficult/ expensive to solve, that is leaving the keys outside the car and driving away without them.
- LgWoodenBadger 7y agoI doubt you have driven a car with these types of keys if you claim this happens. If you have, I’d ask you to name it explicitly because I have yet to drive one (out of 10+ be driven) that does not visually and audibly scream at you that the key is not in the vehicle. That’s if it will even let you shift out of park (in a non-manual).
- daveFNbuck 7y agoI locked my keys in the car a few times and had to call for help when I had a mechanical key. This has never happened to me with the fob. When I closed the fob in the car, the car refused to lock and made a very long annoying beep at me until I retrieved the fob.