[HN Gopher] Toyota 'Reviewing' Key Fob Remote Start Subscription... ___________________________________________________________________ Toyota 'Reviewing' Key Fob Remote Start Subscription Plan After Blowback Author : tech_timc Score : 17 points Date : 2021-12-23 22:26 UTC (34 minutes ago) (HTM) web link (www.thedrive.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.thedrive.com) | rektide wrote: | We're getting decent in home internet-of-things automation | standards in the form of Matter (fingers crossed it's good | enough)... what about out of home standards? I want to think of | what a bring your own fob system would look like. | | But there's so many layers. How is the car presentable? Can i | being my own sim? What if i want to upgrade to 6g? 7g? Can i | upgrade the modem? | | Then the fob... kind of an interesting counter challenge. | Anything with an internet connection, that can control the iot | device? Does it work across public internet? Does it need to join | a personal vpn? Does the car have it's own vpn it signs into? Can | the fob be controlled? Maybe i want to geolocate the fob, or make | it beep. Who iot controls the iot controller? | | Imo i still really really though Webinos project had their heads | best screwed on to handle all of this. It was a neat vpn ish | system. I really want to get out of the days of all products | being totalized experiences, that the product has tonhave all | possible control options built in that you'd want. I want tech to | be a start, to offer options. We've really walked back the great | intertwingularizing, de-api'ed the world, after a very promising | exciting ~2010 that failed to deliver every prpduct has gone on | it's own. It sucks for this world, is evolutionarily so limited; | we shouldnt make each piece of hardware have to produce each and | any kind of software anyone might need for it, & we should not | limit users to having to suffer what limited offerings the maker | can muster. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-12-23 23:00 UTC)