The capability I’m not against. It is nice that when the kid/dog locks the door or you lose your keys or whatever you don’t have to wait for someone to show up. Car keys/locks aren’t all that secure either. It should all be local PKI over bluetooth or something, but that’s another discussion, and even then an override if your phone/key gets lost/corrupted would be necessary.
The legal framework for if/when it’s fine to get a locksmith or break a window to get into a vehicle is pretty well established. Like a lot of other things the law for remote unlocking is lagging far behind tech.
It should all be local PKI over Bluetooth or something,
That would be a fun discussion. For a phone, it would be fine. For a key fob, we need something that could run on a PIC for a year without a battery change. We haven’t even tried to do anything new with PICs since 32bit microcontrollers got so cheap, but I’m not sure people would buy into something that had to charge to unlock their car.
I suppose using your phone wouldn’t be unreasonable. Maybe some of the better NFC as a backup?
I think something like NFC or encrypted RFID with the reader in the car would be nice, but would rely on the car having power which is another failure point. Really the best is just to have the fallback of a physical key like a lot of non-Tesla fobs have. Tech for convenience, physical for reliability.
Mostly I think it’s crazy that Tesla’s require an internet connection to unlock “from the phone”. You can’t just connect directly. It spawned an It’s Always Sunny episode when one of the guys had his Tesla fob stop working and then parked in a parking garage and “locked himself out” because the car didn’t have signal and it took days to resolve.
The capability I’m not against. It is nice that when the kid/dog locks the door or you lose your keys or whatever you don’t have to wait for someone to show up. Car keys/locks aren’t all that secure either. It should all be local PKI over bluetooth or something, but that’s another discussion, and even then an override if your phone/key gets lost/corrupted would be necessary.
The legal framework for if/when it’s fine to get a locksmith or break a window to get into a vehicle is pretty well established. Like a lot of other things the law for remote unlocking is lagging far behind tech.
That would be a fun discussion. For a phone, it would be fine. For a key fob, we need something that could run on a PIC for a year without a battery change. We haven’t even tried to do anything new with PICs since 32bit microcontrollers got so cheap, but I’m not sure people would buy into something that had to charge to unlock their car.
I suppose using your phone wouldn’t be unreasonable. Maybe some of the better NFC as a backup?
I think something like NFC or encrypted RFID with the reader in the car would be nice, but would rely on the car having power which is another failure point. Really the best is just to have the fallback of a physical key like a lot of non-Tesla fobs have. Tech for convenience, physical for reliability.
Mostly I think it’s crazy that Tesla’s require an internet connection to unlock “from the phone”. You can’t just connect directly. It spawned an It’s Always Sunny episode when one of the guys had his Tesla fob stop working and then parked in a parking garage and “locked himself out” because the car didn’t have signal and it took days to resolve.