Friday, March 16, 2012

Your Car Key Knows More About You Than Your Mom Does

Martin Lindstrom wrote in Scientific American, Your Car Key Knows More About You Than Your Mom Does. "The other day I was going through the necessary rigmarole of getting my car serviced when I learned about yet another surprising way the details of your life can be revealed. That's because mechanics working on the most recent car models know a whole lot more about your car than you've told them. They can tell the number of accidents its been involved in, how hard the car's been driven, and even how often the car's exceeded the speed limit. This information is neither held on a central database, nor is it a part of any police record. No, the details are all contained in the car key."

I had no idea. Can anyone confirm this?

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