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Fri, 03 Mar 2006
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This is a duplicate of what I have posted on the family web log. It has a techo bent, so it probably belongs here. Those of you who know me know that our family is spending Christmas in France, followed by a couple of weeks in Canada. We are currently on the France-Swiss border and PPaul has rented a Renault to help move the tribe around. It is a very modern car with a couple of interesting features; 1) it doesn't have a key as such. There is a contactless proximity sensitive card that gets placed in the dash. 2) You dont turn anything to start the car. Once you slide the card in the slot, the dash lights up. There is a very friendly "start" button on the dash (Kind of like what I did with Megans 62 falcon when the ingition switch died - Except this probably has more smarts and the one for Megs was simply connected directly across the starter..) 3) The park brake is intellegient. When you stop the car and turn it off, the brake activates. When you start the car and go to drive off, the brake turns off. 4) You dont unlock the car... You simply walk up to it. It reads the ID from the proximity card, and opens the car for you. The next step is to implant the prox technology, then you cant loose your key. Hmmm, then you don't need an eftpos card... You probably don't even need a drivers licence... Wow, you can also drop the passport. Wow, a world where everything knows you are there.. Cool, Makes callerID look like a walk in the park... |
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