The Apple Car could help drivers and passengers work out where they dropped their iPhone within the vehicle using the car s vibrations, with the same system potentially allowing an iPhone to be used as an in-vehicle remote control.
It is inevitable that at some point, the average iPhone user will have accidentally dropped their device in a car when they are a passenger. While it may fall into a place that s easily visible and reachable from the seat, there s a chance that the device will slide under seats and into different places within the vehicle cabin, making it harder to locate.
The Apple Car could help drivers and passengers work out where they dropped their iPhone within the vehicle using the car s vibrations, with the same system potentially allowing an iPhone to be used as an in-vehicle remote control.
It is inevitable that at some point, the average iPhone user will have accidentally dropped their device in a car when they are a passenger. While it may fall into a place that s easily visible and reachable from the seat, there s a chance that the device will slide under seats and into different places within the vehicle cabin, making it harder to locate.
Future versions of Apple s CarKey could detect when it s being used near wireless chargers, and alter how it works to avoid interference.
Back when we all had physical door locks on our cars, the only possible interference was if someone tried to snatch your keys. Now we can remotely unlock our CarKey-enabled BMWs some of us, anyway and we re doing it in world where we are surrounded by wireless signals. Wireless Charging Interference Mitigation is a newly-revealed patent that shows Apple wants avoid CarKey owners ever finding they can t unlock their cars. Remote keyless systems allow users with electronic keys operating at wireless communications frequencies to wirelessly control vehicle door locks and vehicle ignition functions, explains Apple.
Some day we ll all open our cars this way.
Back when we all had physical door locks on our cars, the only possible interference was if someone tried to snatch your keys. Now we can remotely unlock our CarKey-enabled BMWs some of us, anyway and we re doing it in world where we are surrounded by wireless signals. Wireless Charging Interference Mitigation is a newly-revealed patent that shows Apple wants avoid CarKey owners ever finding they can t unlock their cars. Remote keyless systems allow users with electronic keys operating at wireless communications frequencies to wirelessly control vehicle door locks and vehicle ignition functions, explains Apple.