How To Unlock Your Car With A Cell Phone

[Kor37 9]

About a month ago my brother sent me an email explaining that if a friend or family member has the second key fob for your car, you can call them up on your cell phone, ask them to hold the key fob up to the phone, press the unlock button, and your car door will unlock. In theory, the sound waves from the key fob, which are unintelligible to the human ear, will be transmitted via the cell phone, and the doors will unlock. Well, we've seen enough spam emails before that were full of it, but we decided to see for ourselves if this works.

 

When we tested this theory, we were stunned to find out that it actually works. I was so excited that I pulled out the wife and daughter outside to shoot a quick video on the front lawn. Before getting this on camera, we tested it five times, and it worked every time but one. There was a lot of traffic during the one failed test, so our best guess is that the noise from the passing cars negated the sound from the key fob signal.

 

 

Who would have thought?!!.....I'm gonna check this out!.....

[Wishfire 2]

That reminds me of that bit from the movie "Hackers." You put $5 in quarters into a pay phone and, while you're doing it, you have a tape recorder up to the ear piece, recording whatever noises it makes. Then, later, you play the recording into the mouthpiece, and the phone thinks you just gave it $5 in quarters. (As far as I know, though, that only worked in the mid-70s.)

[Gummy 0]

I got this as a part of an email a few months ago.

I never did try it.

[MrPsychic 1]

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

 

Yea, it's an urban myth.

[Gummy 0]

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

 

Yea, it's an urban myth.

You just love to burst bubbles, don't you?

[MrPsychic 1]

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

 

Yea, it's an urban myth.

You just love to burst bubbles, don't you?

Yep, now you don't have to waste your time trying it.

[Gummy 0]

Actually, I wasn't going to try it.

I don't have the time to waste.