• kalleboo@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Naw, I live in a hot as hell country I’m super jealous of people who can remote-start the air conditioning in their cars.

    It should be an open interface like OBD2 though where you can choose the hardware/provider instead of being locked to the car manufacturer deprecating everything in 3 years to sell you a new car.

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      3 months ago

      You don’t really need connected cars for that. My car has no smart features but still has a remote start capability. It uses the car remote to trigger it instead of cellular connection.

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      3 months ago

      Two way alarm systems with remote start have been a thing for pretty long and don’t all require cellular connection. Some are just super long distance key fobs.

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      3 months ago

      I cannot remote start my car. If it’s really hot or really cold, I go outside for a few seconds to start the car and then go back inside. It’s really not that big a hardship.