Talk Morgan Forums Community The Malvern Arms Keyless

A friend of mine has a Tesla he drove into the Colorado Mountain wilds which meant he would need to charge up before the return journey, when at a charging station the cap would not open to gain access to the charging port and he was on complete discharge. He called the intergalactic Tesla help number, Elon Musk told him that it was an unusual problem and they would work remotely to fix it ,over an hour later they called to say no luck and an engineer would come out to fix it. Another hour later he receives a call from the nearest Tesla dealer to say they would bring a new cap but it would take 3 days to where he was. So having checked into a hotel, as no roadside tow service would touch a Tesla, he waited. On said day two technicians arrived with new cap, they fiddled with their computer and 5 minutes later the original cap opened. Cost him money and time then to add insult too injury he received a fine for parking in a charging spot and not charging!!! Moral of the story is don't go into the wilds in an electric car.

It's more a case of "because we can" rather than "because we need to". Like so much electronic "carp" on modern cars
I hope the security of keyless entry cars has been improved - the early ones were pretty lacking!

While there is no point in denying the wonders of technology, boy can it frustrate an old git like me.... Having worked with some of this stuff as it emerged to then engulfed and made normal engineering logic it ever seemed I was faced with problems caused by programmers perhaps being to confident in their own logic in terms of the programme than trying to take time to consider human logic in terms of the mistakes they seem likely to make..? Yeah well making ever more complex systems FOOLproof is a big ask... But...?

I have posted this vid before but if you can get over the presenters "style" it seems to provide insight to programming that causes confusion amongst those tasked to resolve issues...? NOT that Morgans would ever suffer any such foible..?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7gggowzPSE&t=192s

Well it (and the Apple Watch) have had access capabililty to your card for payment for a long time now and I have yet to hear about a breach which is a good sign. Given the ease with which the current keyless go/lock/theft tools work for the theives I think it can only be an improvement (provided you have an iPhone of course)

As a matter of interest I wonder how many people on here

1. Have an iPhone
2. Have enrolled it in Apple Pay and loaded any form of credit/debit card
3. Use it regularly

I will admit to having to survive on it one day as I left my wallet at home. Train, Underground, Food, Food, Shopping, Underground, Train all worked.

Using Apple Pay on my Apple Watch is now my default way to pay, even if I have the cards with me!

Why on earth change a proven product like a key? These keyless systems are just something more to go wrong in an already over complicated product.