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Originally Posted by Big-Foot
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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I guess you don't do a lot of freeway driving. Stopping/slowing/anything because of a fob going dead is unacceptable. And requiring someone to fumble for the fob while driving the car is out too. Many carry them in gym bags/purses etc. Thats worse than yacking on a cell phone, entering a NAV destination after you inputted in the override hack.
I still have an issue of letting the car run unattended in the first place. I got this car to minimize pollution, save fuel and the concept of running the car just to defrost the windows defeats that concept big time. Get the engine heater option if it's that big of a deal. OK that won't work at work in a parking lot unless you're in Minnesota and they have outlets everywhere (I'm told).