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Scott en Aztl�n wrote:

   Note: I did not post the following.I did, however, post a reply 
making points similar yo yours in which I quoted from the link.

> 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:
>>
>> If you lock your keys in the car and the spare keys are at home, call
>>
>> someone at home on their cell phone from your cell phone.
>>
>> Hold your cell phone about a foot from your car door and have the person
>>
>> at your home press the unlock button, holding it near the mobile phone on
>>
>> their end. Your car will unlock. Saves someone from having to drive your
>>
>> keys to you. Distance is no object. You could be hundreds of miles away,
>>
>> and if you can reach someone who has the other "remote" for your car, you
>>
>> 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?!?!?!


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