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Do you own a car? What’s more likely, misplacing your car keys, or misplacing your phone?

I’m not saying physical keys are not needed, but a nice digital solution is one of the things I really wish I had a Tesla. I wish the other car manufacturers would actually invest in good mobile experiences, they’re all such ass.

> What’s more likely, misplacing your car keys, or misplacing your phone?

good question. I don't know? There are three things I carry with me literally everywhere: phone, keys, and wallet. Any one of them missing in the morning means I have to hunt around the house to find them before I can leave for work. This would not change if I could unlock my car with my phone (I still need to be able to lock my front door and/or let myself in when I come home again, requiring keys)

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Physically unlocking with NFC could be done without all the security holes.

Modern cars already make it much more difficult to lock your keys in the car than in ye olden days.

And the "did I remember to lock my car" remote-check functionality doesn't seem nearly worth the "now a hacker can remote-unlock my car" tradeoff. It's not like that "did I lock it" check helps prevent a "someone smashed the window and grabbed something out of it" scenario anyway.

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I think my car key would be the thing in my pockets that I'm the least likely to misplace. It's only ever in like one of three places.
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> Do you own a car? What’s more likely, misplacing your car keys, or misplacing your phone?

I do own a car. Keys in home are always in exact same spot. Phone can we literally anywhere, good I have smartwatch and I can trigger "locate my phone" that way.

I just don't get the idea of unlocking car though app via internet. Neither I get the "keyless entry" (meaning I do not even need to touch the key fob to unlock car) and "start button" (well if you place key in ignition switch then you will not lose it!)

The security drawback is not worth, fixing non-existing problem in the first place.

> What’s more likely, misplacing your car keys, or misplacing your phone?

Misplacing the phone actually. Car keys are either in someone's pocket/bag (then you talk to whoever used the car last) or in a set place in my home. The phone might be wherever I used it last.

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I’m unlikely to lose either. The keys have an AirTag. The phone show up on find my.
unlock with nfc then ? He is pointing out the rediculousness of the design choice of using the web to unlock the car which is at arms reach
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Running out of battery on my phone.
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What’s more likely, misplacing your car keys, or misplacing your phone?

Are there cars that let you drive them without the key?

My car allows me to unlock it with a phone from the other side of the planet. But to actually drive, it requires the key to be inside.