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"Scott en Aztl�n" <scottenaztlan@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
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> George Grapman <sfgeorge@paccbell.net> said in misc.consumers:
>
>>Have you locked your keys in the car? Does you car have remote keys?
>>
>>
>>
>>This may come in handy someday. Good reason to own a cell phone:
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>>If you lock your keys in the car and the spare keys are at home, call
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>>someone at home on their cell phone from your cell phone.
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>>Hold your cell phone about a foot from your car door and have the person
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>>at your home press the unlock button, holding it near the mobile phone on
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>>their end. Your car will unlock. Saves someone from having to drive your
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>>keys to you. Distance is no object. You could be hundreds of miles away,
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>>and if you can reach someone who has the other "remote" for your car, you
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>>can unlock the doors (or the trunk).
>>
>>Editor's Note: *It works fine! We tried it out and it unlocked our car
>>over a cell phone!"*
>
> What complete and utter bullshit!!!
>
> Maybe in the 60s your TV remote used audio tones to remotely control
> your B&W TV set. Maybe in the 70s your Radio Shaft Telephone Answering
> Device used audio tones to play back your messages remotely. But
> remote entry stsems for cars have always used radio - there's no way
> in hell the RF signal from a vehicle's remote keyless entry fob could
> be picked up by one standard cellular phone, transmitted through a
> standard telephone line, and rebroadcast by a standard celluar phone.
>
> Who thinks up this stuff?!?!?!

Good question.  And *why* do they think up this stuff?

It has been debunked on Snopes.

http://www.snopes.com/autos/techno/keyless.asp