I'm slow to employ any new technology unless I think it's genuinely useful, so I first used keyless entry in 2000. During the first few weeks I adjusted so fast, I unconsciously pressed my keyless remote many times while approaching my home's door. It seems to me a really useful technology would be a dual-purpose one-touch keyless for both home and car. I'm not privy to the coding/signaling used to differentiate an autokeyless device, but I assume it could be made random enough to offer adequate security for both home and car.
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dual-purpose - pardon the "pupose" -lamark74
You would need to give the car and the home the same "PIN".
Your keyless device would send "your" ID, so we need a system where everyone has their own keyless ID, and this cannot be copied (or you get ID theft).
Then when you buy a car or a house you have to re-program it for your ID (and your other half's), and when you sell it you have to re-program it again.
The other way round is you program your personal transmitter with the codes of your house and your car, it ends both each time you use it. The code has to be written down, so you can program it when you buy the car. Then somebody else programs their card with your code.....
It's not a technological problem, but a security one.
At least with the current system you have to hand over the device. Like a normal key, when you hand it over the new person has access and you no longer have.
We're all tired of trying to remember all of the PIN numbers and passwrdsin our lives. And, all those clunky keys too. Due to the shear volume of passwds/codes/keys/pins we all need to employ for our personal access/security, we end up simplifying them, using the same one repeatedly or writing them down. All these responses act to lessen our security. Having a single keyless remote device unlock all of our doors would be extremely convenient. Heck, I'd pay for something like that. Hum, sounds like a profitable idea?
I have a better idea - teach people to drive. The intensity of brakingrarely is of importance except when you're following too closely and anemergency braking event happens in front of you. If you follow your goodold drivers education rules and provide for proper spacing with thetraffic in front of you (count 2 seconds - remember?), your don't need any special brake lights. Those folks that are always tapping their brakes would be just as annoying in any case.
oops - my last comment went to the wrong post.....
oh gawd.. thats just too funny. LOL! ne ways, about the security device. I think it would be a niche type product. Security systems are only meant to keep out "honest" people right. Or were you speaking more along the lines of convienence (sp?)
For additional convenience, replace the keys by using a fingerprint ID lock on both the car and the house door.
Idea was meant to address convenience.
This is a fine idea. The security issue is not as critical as ChrisF suggests. It would actually be easier for a skilled burgular to pick a conventional door lock than to steal your ID number. Most burgulars don't go in through the front door anyway. If they do, it's usually done by kicking the door in. Millions of people trust their automatic garage door opener to be secure enough.
You might want to have a remote with separate buttons for the car and house. Otherwise, if you park in front of your house and lock the doors and then walk up to your house and unlock your house door, you might accidentally unlock the car at the same time without realizing it.