> could do that with a key fob well before connected cars were a thing

I’ve started my Subaru in the lot at 6,500’ from the top of the mountain at 10,500’. A fob isn’t going to scream over that distance.

(None of this requires tracking, however, much less storing a year’s location off the car.)

And car manufacturers are incentivized to remove such valuable and logical features. Enshittification abounds.

I can't tell sometimes if people are trolling on HN or just young. Many so called great innovations I see are just stuff that was available decades ago but didn't involve ad tech predators.

You can tell this stuff isn't that interesting to people otherwise they'd upcharge you for it instead of using it as a pathetic piece of bait for a trap.

I'd only really heard of it as an aftermarket feature you had to mod onto the vehicle not as a base part of a package. At least not in the low market range you can get that feature now. Used EVs less than 30k come with that feature now.

From five miles away?