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A lot of cars in the 2010s made available touch-based convenience access. ie if I have the fob on my person, the car unlocks when I touch the handle of a door,
by ilikehurdles 4y ago
A lot of cars in the 2010s made available touch-based convenience access. ie if I have the fob on my person, the car unlocks when I touch the handle of a door, or gesture to open the trunk.
In the 2020s, I’m increasingly seeing smartphone (NFC?) keys being the sole thing you need to drive off with the thing so no fob is even necessary.
- rootusrootus 4y ago> NFC? Or bluetooth. I'd rather have a pocket fob than have to take my phone out and hold it up to an NFC reader. The problem with the bluetooth method is reliability. My Tesla decides not to unlock for me perhaps once every 20 times I walk up to it. Sometimes just a few seconds while it figures it out, sometimes I have to open the up and hit the door unlock button. My wife's Bolt uses a pocket fob, and so far it has never refused to unlock the doors on command.
- throitallaway 4y agoInteresting. What phone OS do you use? Maybe there's a battery optimization setting at play here for the OS or app.
- rootusrootus 4y agoiPhone running iOS 16.4. This is something I've experienced for years, since I bought my first Model 3 in 2019. I don't think it has much to do with the phone or the OS revision.
- Corrado 4y agoThis also happened (happens) to me and my 2020 Model Y. When I first purchased the car I had a Google Pixel 4 (I think) and now I have an iPhone 13 running the latest iOS. My car still doesn't unlock right away about 1 out of 20 times I walk up to it. It's not really a big deal as the car usually unlocks shortly after arriving but it is kind of a pain if my hands are full and I have to fumble with my phone to "manually" unlock it.