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Phone as key is the future. I was skeptical at first given the general unreliability of Bluetooth but Tesla managed to do it. It's been flawless for me. Key car
by modeless 7y ago
Phone as key is the future. I was skeptical at first given the general unreliability of Bluetooth but Tesla managed to do it. It's been flawless for me. Key card as backup makes perfect sense although I believe upcoming NFC standards will make even this unnecessary with the ability to have the phone act as a passive NFC tag even when the battery is dead.
The key fob is still available if you want it. Tesla even allows adding and removing keys at home. It's an underrated part of the Model 3. Phone key could have been a disaster but they nailed it.
- robomartin 7y agoWhat we need is a world wide standard that every car manufacturer has to adopt by, say, 10 years from now (or whatever is deemed reasonable).
- kalleboo 7y agoThat would be nice, but what is actually going to happen is that all the cars are going to support an Apple-proprietary standard (there are references to a "CarKey" framework in released iOS beta builds). Certainly Google are now working on their own equivalent for Android. So there will be two standards, Apple and Google and all cars will support both. Kind of like with CarPlay and Android Auto.
- robomartin 7y agoYeah, that’s why I would not be for the standard being based on phones. As a side note, I stopped buying phone controlled devices a while ago. All of these things are going to end-up on a big pile of trash as technology evolves. I don’t need a phone controlled toaster oven or power drill.