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Ford introduced its proprietary keypad system with physical buttons for model year 1980 — on the Ford Thunderbird, Mercury Cougar, Lincoln Continental Mark VI, and Lincoln Town Car — marketed initially as the Keyless Entry System, later as SecuriCode and most recently as the SecuriCode Invisible, the latter where a capacitive touch pad ...
The German Kriegsmarine operated FL-Boote (ferngelenkte Sprengboote) which were radio controlled motor boats filled with explosives to attack enemy shipping from 1944. Both the British and US also developed radio control systems for similar tasks, to avoid the huge anti-aircraft batteries set up around German targets.
Depending on the system, the vehicle is automatically unlocked when a button or sensor on the door handle or trunk release is pressed. Vehicles with a smart-key system have a mechanical backup, usually in the form of a spare key blade supplied with the vehicle. Some manufacturers hide the backup lock behind a cover for styling.
LoJack is a stolen-vehicle recovery and IoT-connected car system that utilizes GPS and cellular technology to locate users' vehicles, view trip-history, see battery levels, track speeding, and maintain vehicle-health via a native app. Prior to selling a vehicle, LoJack dealers can use the system to manage and locate inventory, view and manage battery-health, and recover stolen inventory.
The innovative drive system had two transverse motors, one for the right rear wheel and one for the left. Both motors powered the car when operated in a straight line but in a turn, the inside free-wheeled, creating a form of rear differential. Three different 27MHz channels were available to allow running 3 cars at a time.
The earliest electronic systems available as factory installations were vacuum tube car radios, starting in the early 1930s.The development of semiconductors after World War II greatly expanded the use of electronics in automobiles, with solid-state diodes making the automotive alternator the standard after about 1960, and the first transistorized ignition systems appearing in 1963.
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By 1904, cars had doors, beginning with the Oldsmobile Model R, and by 1908, door keys were introduced on the Buick Model 10, but ignition was still done via cranking. [3] In 1910, engine keys were introduced but only locked the car's electric circuitry. [4] Car-starting was still done with cranking, or later on in the 1920s, by pressing a button.