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It's a good thing we invented remote start at the same time as the car itself, I can't imagine the horror of only operating a motor vehicle I'm next to (let alone touching)
What are you talking about?
Remote start of any kind is a luxury and it's wild to me that someone would defend internet car controls as any way important or even desirable. That's what I'm talking about. Physical keys work totally fine and add like two seconds of time to the process.
Not when your door is frozen shut. I wrote another comment detailing my personal struggle as a second shift worker during the polar vortex in -40 degree weather. The guideline was five minutes before you began to risk serious damage, and that was about the length of my walk through the lot. Have you tried opening a car frozen shut by a literal sheet of ice while standing on another sheet of ice while your joints are already starting to stiffen from the cold despite the layers of winter clothing you're wearing? Remote start stopped being a luxury for me when the Midwest winters started getting deadly cold.
Who said it was not?
YOu know except for the fucking case I described where you don't live in a house so the keyfob might not reach so you need some other way to connect to the car to be able to remote start it.
not my fault you struggle with social skills and can't relate to other people
I mean, his point is still valid. Take the 2-3 mins it takes to go down and start the car.
We managed before so let's not pretend that wireless fob are necessary.
Counterpoint: During the polar vortex everyone was told that staying outside in the -40 or lower temperatures for more than five minutes risked frost bite. I worked 2nd shift so I was getting out dead of night at the coldest time, walking to the back of the lot to a car covered in a sheet of ice that simply did not allow me to even open the door to physically start it. That's a 4-5 minute walk already to a car that I can't open, who knows how long to chip away ice I can't see, sometimes can't even reach leading to struggling with the door using brute force trying to get leverage standing on icy pavement just to FINALLY enter my car, which is still -40 inside.
Or I could have had remote start and skipped the potentially lost fingers. Thank goodness I had coworkers who started staying behind to help those that didn't.
We managed before remote start, we still can manage now.
What will happen is that more manufacturers will follow suit, until it becomes the norm and every manufacturer does it.
So be ready to be inconvenienced or be ready to pay.
To moment we stop acting like these things are necessary in the real sense of the term is the moment we can find workarounds. Because we know damn well that this practice won't be legislated.
I sympathize with everyone that lives in cold climates because I do too and it fucking sucks having to heat the freezing car, but be ready to live without the feature because it will definitely be behind a paywall soon enough.
And then what genius? Should I sit in the cold car or stand next to the cold car while it heats up?
The point of the remote start is to avoid this, are you all some brain damaged kind that doesn't understand user experience?
I agree with your entire premise on the usefulness of remote start for cold winters. I live in Canada, though I do not have remote start.
All that being said, I think it’s wild that you accuse others of lacking “social skills” while calling everyone “brain damaged” because they didn’t immediately agree with you.
I have low tolerance for fools who cannot understand something after it was explained 3 times.
I live in Canada dickwad, I know what cold winters are, so cut your whining.
Remote start is a great QoL, and that's why scummy companies hide it behind a paywall.
If enough people pay for the subscription, companies will keep doing it.
So the first step is push back and stop buying from companies that does that.
Second step is to not pay for the subscription when all the companies will be doing it, because let's be real, all car manufacturers will follow suit.
So you will have to either stay in your car, which sucks, or find a workaround like a second key or , in my case, a code on the door.
It will inconvenience a lot of people and car manufacturers are counting on that to keep pushing that shit
A little sensitive aren't you? Taking offense for something clearly not aimed at you, lol.
I am the person that you called brain damaged. Clearly some reading comprehension issues.
You have the social skills of a rock and it shows.
Ah you are right, you are indeed the brain damaged one, sorry about the mixup .