Comment by cholantesh
Comment by cholantesh 14 hours ago
>You don't even see how nice it is to just not have to carry the car key because its been just so ingrained into your life, that you accept it as something normal and expected.
Possibly, but alternatively, you've rationalized that a litany of features that proffer negligible improvements to the experience of driving a car and entrench car dependency are in fact worth having what you regard as cartoonishly oversized keys* that can give malicious actors faster access to a $50000 vehicle.
* I've very recently had about 5 different ones in my pockets on extended test drives and only the CX-5 I think fits this rubric, but meh
Yes, because car theft was unheard of before wireless key fobs. Seriously? Are you not familiar with the Kia Boys? Having wireless transponders has massively reduced the rates of theft over the days of cut keys. And if it's all going to be relying on the security of a wireless handshake anyways, there's little point in having the tumbler that can be trivially raked. Or just overpowered and turned anyways.
And hilarious you're tying the idea of people having pushbutton ignitions to continuing car dependency. Yes, if only we still required cut keys on cars, we would have eliminated car dependency in the US! Tons of people were thinking "maybe cars aren't all they're cracked up to be..." but then they saw "ooh, push button ignition! Nevermind, defund public transit!"
I'm very pro public transit. I ride it, I vote for it, I write to my congress critters about it, I champion it to my friends and strangers all the time. I want to see it succeed. But guess what...I have my transit pass on my phone as well! Eee gads!
Once again, it all boils down to why would I choose to do the more annoying process when I don't have to? The cut key isn't really providing any extra security (once again, see Kia Boys). Would you choose to have to insert a key and turn it to open your fridge? Why would I want to have to do that instead of just pressing a button on my car? Personally, even pressing the button is a bit overkill, but I guess I'm a little old fashioned. In the end I do still prefer thinking about the car is either "on" or "off", as in is the drive train ready to operate or not.