This is key: When working as it should, Tesla’s smartphone unlocking system is a very convenient way of accessing your vehicle as you can simply verify your identity with your device and open the door without needing a physical key. But as system such as these always do have the propensity to go wrong, you’d be very well-advised to keep an alternative means of unlocking your vehicle with you at all times.
When working as it should… (where have I heard that before?)
Everything’s good when it’s working as it should.
Reminds me of the what Winston Churchill said about King Edward VIII – “He was at his best when things were going well!”
Well D’uh! Aren’t we all?
The cars do come with a convenient credit card for tap entry. It easily fits in your wallet. Tesla deserves fault for the network crash no doubt, but owners should indeed not rely on the app exclusively.
Sounds like a ‘feature’ that will eventually let the feds shut down your car whenever and wherever they like.
Or keep it going at top speed no matter how much you pump the brake.
Think of the wonders it could work for the “stochastic terrorism” narrative if intelligence agents could commandeer a delivery van driven by a poor “cracker” without connections and send it plowing through a pedestrian area.
You mean a sledge hammer for the driver side window? Wouldn’t that make the car less appealing and difficult to warranty?
Off topic
Vax passport poll on TorStar.
https://www.thestar.com/politics/2021/09/22/have-your-say-are-you-satisfied-with-ontarios-new-vaccine-passport-system.html#pd_a_10925851
Build a less reliable mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.
Frankly, I care not a single whit about all those poor, poor Tesla owners getting locked out of or into their taxpayer-subsidized, coal-powered, child-slave creating, range-limited, self-righteous virtue-signalling brain-dead owned excuses for over-priced vehicles.
Did I forget anything? Probably, but that’s close enough to get my point across.
Indeed.
“All Go Right. Right Now”.
For my driving pleasure of course.
If a man can programme it another man can jam it.
And it could not happen to a nicer bunch.
I look forward,with great glee to the imposition of this useless technology..
If the Urban Crybaby Posers want to,they could have cheap,reliable electric vehicles overnight..
But they would have to “permit” the use of golf carts on city streets…
Instead,they throttle at birth every upstart practical solution to their non problem..
I will be sticking with my 7.3l Ford.
But I will get a nice “mine Bumper” for the bow
And when I get demented and blind,well then I will revive an old Mack .
No license?No problem.
I identify as competent to drive,just as 75% of Canadian drivers consider themselves to be better than average drivers.
Seems like an unnecessary frill anyway. Most cars with keyless entry sense the proximity of the key fob in your pocket. You don’t have to turn anything on or access an app. You just open the door. And the fobs usually contain a built in emergency key.
And many cars with a prox key can swiped easier than an old Civic using about $20 worth of Ebay junk to make a signal booster. You don’t even have to break anything!
This is reaching. My 2017 sedan has a wireless key for both entering and starting the vehicle. It also has a physical key hidden inside the fob in the event that the wireless functionality fails. Non-physical keys have been a thing for years, as have backups.
A school teacher family friend was a big fan of self driving cars for the future.
I asked her why she turned off her auto correct for her phone.
What could go rong?
I am an absolute primitive. I carry two sets of keys for my vehucle at all times.
That would make you an intelligent primitive.