Keyless Go question
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Wait, the car stays running even if the Transponder is out of range? Thats not good. My Brother has a Jaguar and I believe that if you walk away it will just turn off. In case you get out of the car to get something and someone jumps in and takes off. Thats just crazy.
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I guess the problem for internet browsing through COMAND would mainly be the browser implementation. But this starts to be a bit off topic from KG.
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I don't know about that Eddie Knopp...i've been in this situation countless times as i drop my wife off at a store (for instance) and she has the key in her purse. I drive off and go somewhere else only to realize that she still has the key and even though the red light has come on telling me the key is not there, the car does not shut down or immobilize. I've come to complete stops and whatever...only issue obviously is that when you turn the car off, you can't turn it on again, which, fortunately, i haven't had to deal with yet...
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I completely agree! There should be a visual warning and an audibly announced warning that you are driving without the key and that turning the engine OFF will cause you to be immobilized. It should come across the stereo speakers with the voice similar to the nav voice. This is truly a major oversite. Great feature, but obviously errors were not thought out enough.
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It's a safety feature not to stall the car just by walking away. Would if you walked away from the car and your spouse drives off into a busy intersection without the key and the car shuts off while cars are headed right towards her/him???!!! Serious litigation would ensue from that.
That's why MB decided it would be best to allow the car to continue running until the operator is at a safe place first.
BTW, I saw firsthand and in person the new Jaguar today on the floor of a convention I'm attending. Not impressed.
That's why MB decided it would be best to allow the car to continue running until the operator is at a safe place first.
BTW, I saw firsthand and in person the new Jaguar today on the floor of a convention I'm attending. Not impressed.
Last edited by trumpet1; Apr 11, 2008 at 05:18 PM.
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Just wait until the new owner, Tata, gets finished with it. This is the kind of car they produce:
http://indigo.tatamotors.com/indigocs/specs.asp
http://indigo.tatamotors.com/indigocs/specs.asp
Test-driving various high-end brands like AM, B, etc quickly confirms how inept are many mfrs, no matter price point....they are really just aspirational costume jewelry masquerading as a car....and most customers are clueless, so brand mystique can perpetuate sales of engineering POS cars for some time....
Though US is home of vast majority of world's smartest engineers, I don't believe US has engineered a competent car of any sort in at least 40yrs....doubt many smart engineers ever chose to work in the sclerotic US auto industry....
And for past 40yrs, smartest grads of India's IITs have been coming to Stanford/Berkeley (and MIT) for grad school....and I suspect 99%+ of such elite engineers have chosen to live/work in SiliconValley....so I doubt India has any competent engineers who would choose careers in the commoditized, sclerotic, low-paying auto industry....
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Test-driving various high-end brands like AM, B, etc quickly confirms how inept are many mfrs, no matter price point....they are really just aspirational costume jewelry masquerading as a car....and most customers are clueless, so brand mystique can perpetuate sales of engineering POS cars for some time....
but somehow, sadly enough not everybody sees it this way...
BM cars speak for themselves, the others are using old Goebbelian routine.
