I start the AC from my office which is probably 2-300m from my car with a large building between. That's far outside the range of a key FOB, but it's nice and cold in the summer (or warm on the winter) when I get to it.
DreadPotato
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This is probably rather US specific, 2G is used for emergency services many places in Europe so it's not easily disposed of.
2G is still operational pretty much everywhere. It's still the lowest level fallback for telecommunications.
Yeah, that kind of goes without saying...
Are you not paying the manufacturer for the cellular service to run the climate control?
No, I'm not.
I obviously would prefer open protocols and/or APIs for these things, but it should be possible without modding the car with additional hardware.
Honestly I disagree. That kind of features should absolutely be included and standard. I shouldn't have to buy 3rd party hardware to modify my car and pay for extra cellular service for it.
IDK, the ability to remote activate climate control, start/stop charging and control charge power to match my solar power are all quite good reasons for me to have my car connected.
We should be able to have nice things without surveillance. We shouldn't refrain from these things, we should legislate so they're not allowed to collect data and share it without explicit consent.
To be fair, 3G cellular is technology that is more than 20 years old now, superseded by 4G which is almost 15 years old. It's not like there haven't been viable replacements for 3G for more than a decade before it was retired.
They absolutely don't need to detect the country of their users. Simple popup asking, if you're in an EU country, and then adapt according to the users answer.
Most races are not against time though... They're against other competitors. The time it takes you is pretty irrelevant, as long as the others are slower.
It's more or less only time trials that are races against time.
In what world does walking 2-300m take 20min? What a ridiculous hyperbole...