First drawback I see is if the battery in the watch dies, you still need the mechanical key built into the fob to operate the car.If only GM or someone could make a smart watch that would also have the guts of a keyless entry key fob too!
First drawback I see is if the battery in the watch dies, you still need the mechanical key built into the fob to operate the car.If only GM or someone could make a smart watch that would also have the guts of a keyless entry key fob too!
Why don't you just glue your fob next to your watch?If only GM or someone could make a smart watch that would also have the guts of a keyless entry key fob too!
I recommend learning and practicing the steps. It is better to know how and not need it, than to need it and not knowing how!!GM is already working this to use a smart phone. It would probably be trivial to replicate the phone app to the watch.
This is for car sharing services, btw. You won't have a hard key for car sharing an autonomous vehicle.
BTW, I have driven Volt/ELR for over 4 years. I have never used the hard key. On ELR I have no idea how to do this either. (oops. rtfm.)
Except the existing fobs probably don't use Bluetooth or NFC. I've used the onstar app for phones, and it's insanely slow to the point of being unusable. The phone sends data to the onstar mothership, which makes a cell call to the car to unlock the doors.Yeah, I don't understand how this is not a phone app already. NFC or bluetooth or whatever should make it pretty easy to make the link, and encryption or rolling codes or whatever should make it possible to secure. I would love to carry one less device. And I wouldn't mind adding a small physical key to my key ring to get rid of the big fob.
I have OnStar. I'd just call them. I'm paying for it, might as well use it.I recommend learning and practicing the steps. It is better to know how and not need it, than to need it and not knowing how!!
Why? There's no reason to not use a fob-approach to a home too, and businesses are already working that angle.Most people are still going to need a keychain for house keys and whatever else.
I like the car from Bond or Mission Impossible or similar movie (can't remember which), where he basically just stuck his palm on the car window and it had an embedded scanner that acknowledged and unlocked. Of course, you'd have to clean your windows often. Perhaps it needs some workI've never much cared for the entire fob idea. Mostly I wish we could get something like a fingerprint reader.
I suspect we might not be that far from a "face recognition" module on a car that just unlocks when it recognizes you.
I've seriously considered it after being freed from the key by volt.Why? There's no reason to not use a fob-approach to a home too, and businesses are already working that angle.
One could imagine having a personal fob that could open your car AND your house, and anything else you need. It's only a matter of time before keys go bye bye.
If you want to get REAL crazy, the fob could evolve into a chip/device implanted under your skin, powered by your own body. No more lost/forgotten fobs, or dead batteries.![]()
And he causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: and that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.One could imagine having a personal fob that could open your car AND your house, and anything else you need. It's only a matter of time before keys go bye bye.
If you want to get REAL crazy, the fob could evolve into a chip/device implanted under your skin, powered by your own body. No more lost/forgotten fobs, or dead batteries.![]()
I'm still accustomed to wearing a watch. Taking out my phone to check the time seems like going back to the days of pocket watches. Since lots of devices around us these days have a clock incorporated in them, I could adjust to not wearing one if there was a reason to.What is a watch, something from the 20th Century? I haven't worn one in over 20 years.
Your Smart phone works just fine unlocking the car with OnStar