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My, do conversations diverge! It's like playing the kids game 'telephone'.
My original intent in posting was to make the case for a 'one key' life. Know the old saying "How important you are is not measured by how many keys you have, but by the ratio of doors opened/number of keys"? As it is, I have to carry around more keys than I like, and maintain a password notebook for the ballooning number of computer/bank/etc. login names and passwords.
It would be nice to live in a world where we could leave our cars and homes and computers unlocked. I grew up in such a world, but in urban America (and even now where I grew up) that is not practical.
So I'd rather have a way of accessing all these things without having to carry a suitcase of keys and passwords with me. The Prius keyless entry is great, and moves in that direction, but unless it opens other things as well, it is just another device, bigger than a key in fact, that I must carry about to gain access to one of my possessions.
Which takes me back to a post I made in the technical section: I wish Toyota or someone else made a tiny, key-size max version that simply did the electronic ID part without the metal key or buttons. I'd be willing to take my chances on being without the other functions in everyday life.