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Turning a key to alpha your car? Pushing a button to pop the trunk? That’s so 2008.

Kicking Tires reports, “The car aegis aggregation Directed Electronics has arise a new iPhone app that lets users lock and alleviate their car doors, pop the trunk, set off the anxiety or artlessly alpha the vehicle.”

Of course, accepting the app to plan requires some accouterments be added to your car. Jalopnik explains, “The bolt is that the arrangement that bolts into your car to accredit all this costs $499, again there’s a $30 a year cable fee afterwards the aboriginal year.”

VentureBeat gives a briefing of just what the app can do. “The app lets you alpha your car, about-face on the heater, lock or alleviate your door, arm your aegis system, about-face on your air conditioning or defrost your windows from afar. It’s aimed at users in algid or hot acclimate climates. You can aswell accomplish the car beep if you’re aggravating to acquisition it in a parking lot.”

Another additional to the arrangement is that its ambit is around limitless, acceptation that you could conceivably alleviate and alpha your car from a few states abroad — or use it to play one heck of a applied antic on someone.

Jalopnik comments, “Personally, we’ve never had a botheration inserting a key into a lock and agee it or cat-and-mouse until we were in the car to alpha it, but accessibility junkies now acquire one added way to barber adored abnormal off their circadian routine.”

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