Re: remote entry -key fob programming

"Bill Putney" <bptn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:5v0u7bF1gae3iU1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> in this case, if you think about it,
> the development costs of such systems are amortized over practically all
> new cars on the planet (I'm assuming the algorithms and chips all come
> from a handful of manufacturers), and the per-unit costs are probably
> not increased much at all.

Understandable, the problem is that this ALSO applies to things such
as the human interface to the engine computer.

Why does it take a $10,000 scantool to interrogate the computer?
Car computers today could be fitted with an USB ****t and you
just plug in the laptop and run some software on it that interrogates the
computer.  Or better yet as I've said before, put an ethernet ****t
on the car computer and put a webserver in it, and jack in your
laptop running a web browser and use that to interrogate the
computer.

> IOW, there is some slight benefit overall,
> but the cost is almost zero compared to a, say, pre-'96 system.  It's
> not like some feel-good systems that are on our cars now or in the
> future from which the benefits are questionable but the added cost per
> vehicle is one or more hundreds of dollars.
>

Systems like the car computer interface which would cost almost
zero due to amortization, yet deliver massive benefits, are not
implemented.  Systems like powered running boards that do
nothing other than make the vehicle look like a rolling Christmas
tree, ARE implemented.  Is it any surprise Chrysler is this close
to bankruptcy?

Ted