DaimlerChrysler's car-security system is explained thus: "To set up personal unlocking, you choose a position to send the signal from, say, three paces sideways, halfway up one side of the car...From then on, the key will only work at that point" (15 January, p 25).
If you do this, you had better hope that no one parks next to your car while you are gone.
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