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Old 11-25-2006, 05:32 AM
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Default Re: How do you lock the car when the engine is running?

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Originally Posted by schmidtj View Post
You want the car to stop because the battery in the FOB fails. Not THATS a point of failure. A two dollar battery would prevent the use of the car.
It's called SmartSTART for a reason I guess and not SmartRUN.
Can you use the key fob to lock the doors with the car running?
I'll admit that I hadn't thought of that but....

It could be smart enough to say something like;
"Key not present - Place fob in front of button within 60 seconds or auto shut-down will commence"

Then the car could start slowing the vehicle's speed over the next 60 seconds and then only allow a max speed of 10mph for the next 60 seconds until it just stops altogether.

This gives the driver with a dying key fob 3 whole minutes to cough up the fob or he's going to the curb..

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Stanley - Thanks for that list of features!

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Regards - Randy




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