Also, who is leaving their proximity keys in the car? I don’t think I’ve ever taken them out of my pocket when I’m in the car.

This is the keys’ fault? People don’t know how to look at a tachometer to confirm the engine isn’t running before they get out, and it’s the keys’ fault?

I’d like to see some stats on that. People were suffocating themselves by starting or leaving cars running and getting distracted long before proximity keys became a thing.

But you’re still reaching for something...just a button in this case.

It assumes you’re smarter than it, and want to leave it idling.

Yeah but I chose progress. I think some clever programming could easily mitigate this.

“Proximity keys give some convenience but introduce a host of issues that are not intuitive, and, in some cases, are just confusing.”

Also, how many people have died similarly from leaving their car running with a physical key over the same time?

“The basic problem is this: People (at least 28 killed since 2006, along with at least 45 injured)“

So because there’s a proximity key that means that the decade old muscle memory response of turning off the ignition when the car is put into park is lost? You get in the car, you have to press the button (not turn the key). You park the car, you press the button (not turn the key back).

That issue specifically with leaving your car on? How is that differnt than just leaving your keys in the ignition?

I mean, sucks that people have died and I don’t want to be insensitive to that fact but this is why we can’t have nice things.

General stupidity.

they’ve unwittingly left a car running in a garage, filling their homes with carbon monoxide gas, killing them.

a) cite your sources that no one has died with a physical key

Higher octane will not hurt your old crapcan.

The OP was talking about cars “requiring 87 octane.” Which would mean cars that will become paperweights if 87 octane isn’t available. Those types of cars don’t exist.

It’s not 95, its 91. The author needs to fix his article, he doesn’t understand the different octane rating systems.

95 RON is = to 91 octane USA.

The demand for backward compatibility is a disease that stalls innovation. This isn’t even non-compatible. It’s simply sub-optimal.