| elliotgb |
This sounds like a new urban legend in the making, but here goes. I read this in another forum, not a late April Fools joke either.
Have you locked your keys in the car? BUT Your Cell Phone is in
Your Pocket!! Not In The Car!!!
Does your car have remote keyless entry? This may come in handy someday. Good reason to own a cell phone: If you lock your keys in the car and the spare keys are at home, call someone at home on their cell phone from your cell phone. Hold your cell phone about a foot from your car door and have the person at your home press the unlock button, holding it near the mobile phone on their end. Your car will unlock. Saves someone from having to drive your keys to you. Distance is no object. You could be hundreds of miles away, and if you can reach someone who has the other "remote" for your car, you can unlock the doors (or the trunk).
Editor's Note: It works fine! We tried it out and it unlocked our car over a cell phone!" |
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| wa4qfy |
quote:
Originally posted by elliotgb
This sounds like a new urban legend in the making, but here goes. I read this in another forum, not a late April Fools joke either.
Have you locked your keys in the car? BUT Your Cell Phone is in
Your Pocket!! Not In The Car!!!
Does your car have remote keyless entry? This may come in handy someday. Good reason to own a cell phone: If you lock your keys in the car and the spare keys are at home, call someone at home on their cell phone from your cell phone. Hold your cell phone about a foot from your car door and have the person at your home press the unlock button, holding it near the mobile phone on their end. Your car will unlock. Saves someone from having to drive your keys to you. Distance is no object. You could be hundreds of miles away, and if you can reach someone who has the other "remote" for your car, you can unlock the doors (or the trunk).
Editor's Note: It works fine! We tried it out and it unlocked our car over a cell phone!"
You hit the nail on the head... Not....
Go to Snopes
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Snopes.com
Remote Possibility
* Claim:* Any car equipped with a remote keyless entry system can be
unlocked via cell phone.
*Status:* */False./*
*Example:* /[Collected on the Internet, 2004]/
This only applies to cars that can be unlocked by that remote button on
your key ring. Should you lock your keys in the car and the spare keys
are home, and you don't have "OnStar," here's your answer to the problem!
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| GripperDon |
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Originally posted by njjoe
NOT!
-njjoe
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| SExyMurano |
| I actually put that hypothesis to the test a few months ago without any success. I had to try it as soon as I heard it because it sounded too good to be true. On the other hand guys, don't give up all hope. Try it for yourselves! Maybe this is another one for the Myth Busters! |
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| elliotgb |
From the truthorfiction.com website:
You Can Unlock Your Car Remotely Through a Cell Phone-Fiction!
This was an eRumor that previously circulated on its own. The claim is that if you lock yourself out of your car but have a extra remote switch at your home you can phone someone at home, have the person hold the switch up to the phone, then you hold your cell phone near your car door and when the button on the other remote is pressed—your car door will open. This one is also false. It assumes that car remotes use sound waves to open your door but most of them use radio signals, not sound. A radio signal will not travel over the audio of a cell phone. |
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| njjoe |
quote:
Originally posted by GripperDon
:confused:
Sorry to disappoint, Grip, but heard about this one a few years ago. I knew it was a fallacy then.
-njjoe |
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| Mr3Putt |
quote:
Originally posted by njjoe
Sorry to disappoint, Grip, but heard about this one a few years ago. I knew it was a fallacy then.
-njjoe
Yeah, it's bunk.
Unlike the remote to the chin gig....... |
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| GripperDon |
| I had hoped that a bluetooth phone (on each end) was somehow receiving and generating rf signals in relation to the key inputs. But alas I guess not. |
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| elliotgb |
yeah, I'm sorry I posted this. I had hopes that this was real.
About 10 minutes after I posted, I went back to the other forum and someone refuted the myth. That's when I came back and updated my post from the truthorfiction.com website. |
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| Gonzo |
| Even if it used sound... I can't image your cell phone could reproduce it in any many that would work. |
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| zebelkhan |
I tested this a couple of years ago and did not work for me either.
But hey, how about if we had a device at home that generated a beep in response to radio wave from the remote, and then had a simillar device in the MO that took that sound and generated the same radio wave back. I bet it would work then.....:D |
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