Today I went to Japan and by accident took the car key with me. The car keeps working until you turn it off. My wife also didn’t realize it until she was at home after bringing me to the bus station, and we had no idea where the other car key was.
A while ago I put those Samsung Tag 2 devices on the two car keys. On the one I took the battery was empty. But I could see on my phone that the other one was at home when I left 5 hours ago.
I’m the only one with an android phone, wife and doughter have iPhones, so it’s incompatible. I have my old S9 at home, but somehow the PIN didn’t work after my wife found it and charged it, damn.
Then I remembered that our son has a Samsung tablet. We installed the Find app on it, but I have several samsung accounts, had to figure out which to log in with. Password is over 30 chars long … Wife installed WeChat to copy over the password I send to her phone via Element. She logged in and all items showed up, but no connection to car key.
Tension is high, the three years old is cranky grandma arrives, without car key thw whole week will be impossible to work bring the kids to school and kindergarten, etc.
So wife goes down to the car, perhaps it’s in there, 5 minutes connection times out, no car key. She goes up again to the flat, no connection still …
She clicks around in the app, suddenly it shows “Connecting …” OMG it’s happening!
It connected! I try to explain that she needs to press the 🎵 button, but everyone is too exited they don’t hear me through the video chat while I’m at the airport in Japan.
They move around with the tablet, signal is getting stronger, they find the 🎵 button and press it, daughter is listening carefully it must be in the wardrobe, very faint sound pipipip pipipipi … It’s in the golf bag! Last time after golf my wife tossed it in there and used the other key ever since.
What a relief, no need to get a rental car!
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The car keeps working until you turn it off.
Sounds like a new “Speed” movie in the making!
Sounds like a new “Speed” movie in the making!
“The Car That Couldn’t Be Turned Off”
I was thinking a 1-hours (40 minute) tv show, you’d have to add a dramatic element, like a kid needs to be taken to the hospital, the car turns off, and they’re in a rural area so there’s no other transport. Or maybe a half-hour (20 minute) sitcom-like comedy.
Are my wife and I weird for each having our own set of keys that we keep with us at all times, as opposed to communal keys that we take only when we need them?
If I were going on a plane trip, I’d put my key in the car ignition and drive to the airport (because I’m the one who drives when my wife and I are together, out of habit), turn the car off, put my keys in my pocket, and then my wife would put her key in the ignition to drive home.
Nope. Hubs and i each have our own key, and i don’t even drive (i bike)
Exactly this. I keep track of my own key. She keeps track of hers.
Great system unless you have kids old enough to drive and more drivers than keys.
Wait you don’t put keys on a hook after you get home
They are saying they had the keys in their pocket when driving their car to the airport, and left them in their pocket when their wife drove the car back home
Bad design by the car manufacturer if it doesn’t at least warn the driver that the key fob isn’t nearby. My car would beep once if you close the driver door and the fob isn’t inside. It will also have a dash notification that the fob isn’t close by.
Once the keys are somewhere, the hook technic won’t work. They forgot about it. 🥹
Wife installed WeChat to copy over the password I send to her phone via Element
Not exactly sure what’s going on here
That car likely recorded the whole thing as a transcript to snitch upward. Head office will be figuring how they can make subscription money from this incident
Wow!
My SO would have an aneurysm over it if this happened.
When I shared this writeup with my wife she said:
Nice story telling ^^.
In a very rational engineer’s view.
While the Wife got panic and anxiety from the beginning.
Reminds me I have no idea where either of our spare car keys are. It’s quite a ticking time bomb we’re quietly ignoring for the time being. Lol
Take this story asyour call to fix it rather than continuing to ignore it
Crazy story ! Somehow i pictured it in a video game 😅
It indeed reads like a point-and-click adventure.
It feels like paying the extra Apple tax might be well worth it for this household
I won’t go back to apple probably https://jeena.net/why-i-switchedfrom-osx-to-linux
