Why has this concept never come to SA?

[Jet-Fighter7700]

saw an advert for this, and though to myself what a brilliant idea,

then I wondered why it never made it to SA?

what could be simpler? take a photo of your car key, they build you a replacement and send it to you,
you plug in the reprogrammer into your car, open an app, it adds the key to your vehicle and you done.

I suppose our criminals would love this, and maybe thats why it never came to our shores.

 

[PaulGherkin]

saw an advert for this, and though to myself what a brilliant idea,

then I wondered why it never made it to SA?

what could be simpler? take a photo of your car key, they build you a replacement and send it to you,
you plug in the reprogrammer into your car, open an app, it adds the key to your vehicle and you done.

I suppose our criminals would love this, and maybe thats why it never came to our shores.

Because maybe this requires access to OEM encryption keys and that system is already broken...

 

[animal531]

saw an advert for this, and though to myself what a brilliant idea,

then I wondered why it never made it to SA?

what could be simpler? take a photo of your car key, they build you a replacement and send it to you,
you plug in the reprogrammer into your car, open an app, it adds the key to your vehicle and you done.

I suppose our criminals would love this, and maybe thats why it never came to our shores.

Imagine the day we get proper flying/hovering cars. The rest of the world has a great time while here in South Africa we're suddenly fighting sky pirates ripping off roofs.

 

[saor]

then I wondered why it never made it to SA?

How many countries has it made it to? Seems like a super niche thing that exists only in one country. Can't really find much mention of it outside that single ad and their website yet you wonder why it never made it to SA?

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

How many countries has it made it to? Seems like a super niche thing that exists only in one country. Can't really find much mention of it outside that single ad and their website yet you wonder why it never made it to SA?

Think the idea is brilliant, and nobody has taken it further for reasons I can't understand.

And I don't think it's a technical issue, the cars in the US are very much like the cars here, after all they share many parts, as that's how the auto business is.

No, I think the real reason is every single locksmith will be out of a job instantly with this, as now Piet pompies can code and make his own keys.

 

[Fulcrum29]

Imagine the day we get proper flying/hovering cars. The rest of the world has a great time while here in South Africa we're suddenly fighting sky pirates ripping off roofs.

Truck drivers here have experienced some real The Fast and The Furious action, sometimes the truckers win.

 

[Fulcrum29]

Think the idea is brilliant, and nobody has taken it further for reasons I can't understand.

And I don't think it's a technical issue, the cars in the US are very much like the cars here, after all they share many parts, as that's how the auto business is.

No, I think the real reason is every single locksmith will be out of a job instantly with this, as now Piet pompies can code and make his own keys.

Those services do exist. Car Express bundled it as a service. I am only curious why their product is said to be disposable. You also need to be sure that your new FOB is reliably programmed. There are 'diagnostic' devices which can do as advertised by Car Express, well, without cutting the key.

 

[Fulcrum29]

Same thing:

There are people doing it here.

 

[PaulGherkin]

The real reason:
The transponders in car ignition keys are programmable, BUT, that shyte is protected by NDAs and such. I have the technical details because I have a signed NDA with the chip maker, but even so, the block holding the encryption keys is unreadable and you would need to know what that key is to be able to program a blank chip. This is why, in SA the more common option is to use the machine at the stealership to let the engine control unit know what the new tag is.