caropener.com

“Try our light-hearted quiz to see how long you are likely to be the owner of your present vehicle! Be warned, these are all ways in which vehicles can be stolen.”

http://www.met.police.uk/barkinganddagenham/car_quiz.htm

http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_unlock_door.htm

“Comforting though it may be to imagine you can unlock your car door in an emergency by receiving a distant signal via your cell phone, it can’t possibly work — not with the technology as it now stands, at any rate.

Here’s why:

Your remote car key operates by sending a weak, encrypted radio signal to a receiver inside the automobile, which in turn activates the door locks.

Since the system works on radio waves, not sound, the only conceivable way a signal from your spare remote could be picked up by one cell phone and relayed to your car’s onboard receiver by another would be if both phones were capable of sending and receiving at exactly the same frequency as the remote itself — which they can’t be, given that all remote entry devices operate at frequencies between 300 and 500 MHz, while all mobile phones, by law, operate at 800 MHz and higher.

It’s apples vs. oranges, in other words. Your cell phone can no more transmit the type of signal needed to unlock a car door than your remote key is capable of dialing up your Aunt Mary … though no one can predict what miracles the future may bring. “

a weiner asks:

Does this work for the older cars with no power locks or all types of locks?

wanker responds:

No, because non-power locks don’t have remotes and therefore can’t be unlocked remotely.

Here’s a sample google post from today.  Apparently dude says it unlocked my shit.

Trend Micro requests that email users not forward this email, which is a hoax.

The sound of a drowning voice of reason

http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/forum/forum_comments/1943/

Here’s what snopes has to say about the Remote Possibility

“(More than a few people have inadvertently fooled themselves into believing the cell phone method of unlocking car doors actually works because they tried it and achieved the desired results — not realizing their cars were still within range of their keyless remote devices, and the signals that unlocked the doors were transmitted the usual way [i.e., through the air], not via cellular phone connections.) “