Sometimes I’ll set my phone down somewhere like in my car or room and then leave to go do something and my podcast cuts out, reminding me I forgot to bring my phone with me. Clutch saves

  • CameronDev@programming.dev
    7·
    8 days ago

    Yes, but not always.

    I was messing around in the garage, and put my phone down in the little gap below the windscreen wipers on my car. I forgot it there, hopped in the car, it paired, and away I went. Fortunately I habitually check my pockets, and I noticed it about 3 kms down the road, and before I got on the freeway.

    • BassTurd@lemmy.world
      3·
      8 days ago

      I had a very similar thing happen where my buddy left his wallet and phone on the roof and we took off. The phone slipped down into the gap between the trunk and rear window if his Charger, so it connected just fine. We got about 5 miles down the road and stopped at a gas station before we went out on a 5 hour road trip. We found the phone stuck but had to go back and fortunately found his black wallet at night in a grass section before we had left our neighborhood. There were a couple dollar bills had flipped out and those were bright enough with light that we spotted it.

      • CameronDev@programming.dev
        2·
        8 days ago

        My mate had the same issue with his car keys. On the roof, he shut the boot, it slid down and jammed between the boot and the window.

        Unfortunately, he didn’t have keyless go, and couldn’t open the car either, so we were quite stuck. Ended up using a coat hanger to pull it out luckily.

        • BassTurd@lemmy.world
          2·
          7 days ago

          Unrelated to this OG topic, but I was going on a snowboarding trip a few years ago and got a rental car via Turo, which is basically air bnb for vehicles. I met the owner at the airport and I took off after everything was loaded. 30 some minutes late I get to resort, turn off the vehicle and start getting dressed to hit the slopes. I realized I didn’t have the key, so we called the guy and he still had it. Since the vehicle was running, we were able to leave with no issue. He met us at the mountain to drop off the key.

          I had a similar experience another time on a snowboard trip, where I went down to the vehicle in the morning to warm it up and scrape the windows. I went back in inside grabbed my stuff and stopped at the gas station about a mile down the road. I noticed a light that said no key fob on the dash and thankfully without turning the car off, went back to the hotel and found it in the room. That one would have been tough because I went another hour out and didn’t have someone to call since it was a rental.

          I guess my point is, you shouldn’t be allowed to put a car in drive or reverse if the key fob isn’t detected.