D3 has a keyless 2008 Camry Hybrid. What’s cool about the fob is the little magnet and mini key inside that you can use if the car’s battery, or the fob’s battery, has died. It’s also great to start it remotely when the windshield is covered with ice.
I miss good old fashioned keys. Never hackable and you knew if you locked your doors or not. They were also cheap to replicate so you could have a few spares. Try buying a few spares of your keys today.
Sorry that happened to you. All it takes is one time and a crook can steal something. Glad it was only property and you were not hurt.
Our local gyms have had a problem with cars getting broken into. The thieves have key fobs with various signals and click those until a vehicle responds. Then they tend to take one credit card out of the wallet many people leave in their cars while there. Many people go right home from the gym and never even open their wallet til much later to realize a card is missing.
That is sophisticated. Our local gym was a magnet for smash and grab kind of theft - the crooks would bust as many windows as they could and take off with whatever they could grab out of those cars. No key would have stopped those crooks.
@cap, you sure have smart car burglars! That’s one way to be able to use the CCard until the victim realizes s/he IS a victim! I guess it’s best not to carry many CCards, as is always advised, so you can tell quickly if any are missing. Some folks carry a HUGE pile of CCards–have no idea how they can keep straight which ones are missing at any given time.
I am not sure of the exact details. But my co-workers daughter had an interesting situation. Her son drove his sister to school (car is a Lexus if that matters) . He had a class zero period and she did not, so she slept in the car in the school parking lot for an hour. When she woke up she was locked INSIDE the car. She had done this before without problem. So I am not sure what she did differently. The security guard got her brother out of class to get her out of the car. I imagine there is some sort of release mechanism inside the car, but she couldn’t find it at the time.
I love the fob stored in the small zipper section of my purse, never having to dig around to find a key that sinks to the bottom and moves as you search, causing fear that perhaps I’ve lost the expensive key.