On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Derek dlahouss@mtu.edu wrote:
luke.leighton <luke.leighton <at> gmail.com> writes:
funny that....
What do you mean, my car's cell-phone system is only designed to last 2 years, and that was designed 5 years ago when the car was in design? And car companies are more interested in charging $1000 for a $100 dollar part since you can't get it "factory-finish" on the aftermarket.
you heard about why if you push a button a garage-door opener it will set car alarms off in the neighbourhood? it's because they use a $0.15 part @ 433mhz with a wide-band reception instead of a $1 part with proper narrow-band filtering. i assume that this is also the reason why, if you are locked out of your car, you can ask someone with a GSM mobile phone to press a duplicate door-opener AT THEIR END of the conversation...
Course, you could also have a car that runs on a generator (7kW) and seats 2 with some funky styling (for airflow reasons) and the "entertainment" and nav system is run from a pc card. Now if only I could remember who I knew that was working on that...
ha ha very funny derek :) actually the original design seated 3 (one staggered in the middle) and the new one seats 4. i'll get to that again after this is all underway....
l.