Originally Posted by SRT6_Roadster
Anyway to make the starting time user programmable, or offer 1 length of time for sticks and one for autos, or just offer different options? Not trying to make things overly complicated but I still think 3 seconds is a long time for a car with an automatic. I can see that length of time if the car is a stick - want to make sure someone does not put it into a wall. Which I have seen happen with a stick and remote start.
In the car's I have driven with factory push button start I think you just have to hold the button for 1 second or so.
I am sure you have given this a lot of thought and I am not trying to play Monday morning quarterback or "kick sand on the project" but giving it a little though 20 feet for locking and unlocking sounds like it could be a bit far (I have not walked this out). Is there a reason for this distance? I would think that 10-12 feet would be a better distance but maybe that is not enough time for the car to respond and actually unlock the doors. Although we can still use the lock & unlock button on the key fob, right? If that is the case I guess it is really sort of a moot point depending on how the system reacts when the lock/unlock buttons are used.
I reread the original post concerning the price. I need to revise my answer. I am comfortable with a $300ish price range. The higher it goes above that... $325 I am still in but I am not sure I would be in for $500 as an example of potential pricing.
The problem I see with just making it one second is one-one-thousand just doesn't seem like a long enough period to be positive you want to start the car. The cars that you only have to push the button for a second have another switch that you have to turn to on or run for the switch to work. We don't have that luxury. I guess the other option we can look at is to just have it so there is no turning the car to run and make it so when you press the button for a second, it turns on the car and cranks the engine until it starts and if a tach signal is there, just press it for a second to turn it off and if the car is on but there is no tach signal (like when you kill the engine once in a blue moon when starting out on an incline) it will just refire the engine. I'm still at the point where I can make these changes so I want people to voice their opinions about the system now. I know that some people may like it one way, other another and some won't like it at all so I'm trying to find the happy medium.