Volvo says goodbye to keys in 2017! Smartphones will, unsurprisingly, cost them their jobs. It will equip its cars with digital car key technology as early as next year. Unlocking the vehicle will be handled by a mobile application that Volvo is developing together with the Swedish company Sunfleet. Thus, one user will be able to open several cars.
Volvo with the year 2017, he says goodbye with the car key! They will jump in instead smartphones. The Swedish brand will offer keyless cars to customers as early as next year, when the car will be unlocked with mobile application. In the future, we will talk about handing over the keys only symbolically, because they will be replaced by digital car key technology. Of course, with arrival digital key the question of security arises, but it must be added that banking applications they are no longer a specialty and any concern about this is unnecessary. How we will unlock the car when we run out of battery is probably the only concern.
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From now on, the keys at Volvo will be tied to the smartphones with which they will be used unlocked and driven cars through a mobile application. The user will be able to have the "keys" of various vehicles, which will be especially useful in the future, when, according to Volvo's predictions, car ownership less common and sharing more often. Digital keys will be pilot tested in the coming months at Gothenburg Airport, and, as mentioned, they will be launched in series in 2017.
