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Honest question, is it a big deal not being able to start your car remotely?

• hanche 6y ago
  Not for me. (I own a Kia Soul, electric.) Many owners use a similar feature to get their car to warm up at a specific time, though. I haven’t used it myself, though, being too disorganized to know ahead of time when I want to use the car. But I find it very useful to be able to keep an eye on the charging status, so I can return to the car when the battery is full enough. Of course, if the intruders have the means to disable my car remotely, that is a much more serious issue.
• crocodiletears 6y ago
  Not really, for most functional adults. But it's offensive you need the OEM's servers to do it.
• chrisseaton 6y ago
  No. People in this thread are (deliberately?) misunderstanding and (pretending to?) think it means being able to start them at all.
• kube-system 6y ago
  It would be for me if I recently spent $40,000 for the privilege of doing so.
• tyingq 6y ago
  I think all the noise from people complaining about it is the bigger deal. That results eventually in the general public learning that Kia has lost control to hackers, which eventually hurts car sales.