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Originally Posted by Galex999
I really don't see the benefit of remote start. I mean, why would you want to start your car before even get in?! To warm it up in cold days? Or save few seconds to get out of parking spot? Even my damn smartphone often does "pocket dialing" to randomly calling out by itself...mostly to emergency 911...which drives me crazy. Now I have worry about "pocket" starting my car?!!! What if the engine is on accidentally all night long (even days if you're away on vacation) inside of closed garage? It can potentially fill your entire house with CO2 or even burn it down! As an engineer, I know that no technology is perfect and it can malfunction, and this remote start thing can kill someone. Is the benefit surpasses the risk? I don't think so. This is a perfect example of Why-Tech instead of being a really useful Hi-Tech.
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Move to somewhere that's below freezing in the winter with multiple inches of ice and/or snow on your car and then tell me remote start isn't useful.
If no technology is perfect and everything can malfunction, why do people fly in planes everyday? We should just go back to the stone age and use wood to start fire.