So by your tally, ND, one company has killed the key. I still feel comfortable that although the key will not survive, the steering wheel is just making it look like less of an outlier by virtue of utter confusion. It's not dying like the CD player is dying (and I think it's easy to over-estimate the number of people who are handy with non-CD music purchasing--my parents will likely drive keyless cars before they play MP3s in a car without extensive lessons--they don't own MP3s anywhere, on anything, right now). If Prius is the only company that doesn't have a shove something in and turn it option anywhere on the menu, we're not that far along. Everyone knows Priuses are spaceships with wheels.

It would be interesting to see what the take up rate is on the keyless option on cars that offer it. I know that most of the Focus and Fiesta models I have had as loaners have it. I believe only the absolute base model uses a key.

I also wonder what percentage of models offer it. Jetta's my go to calibration, and it seems to have been an option since 2012.

The Tesla Model S only comes keyless, I think.

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I love my keyless Focus. But once I rented a keyed Focus and every time I got in I would try to press the nonexistent Start button

My car still has only a tape deck. I no longer have any tapes.

I know I'm in for a real shock when I have to replace this car. Which, I should start test driving things, so I'm not completely clueless. I know me. I will not preemptively replace said car before I hit a repair estimate that leads me to replace it. Which will mean a rental while I shop. Would be so much better if I had an idea what I wanted to replace it with. Things have changed quite a bit in the last 13 years (well, 16, if you count the car vintage.) Moreso than what had changed from '88-2000 (I bought my '88 sentra in 95 or so?)

For those who watched the Kentucky Derby today, Laura Hillenbrand picked Orb to win, which he did. She noted that he was bred by the Phipps family who also bred Seabiscuit, and is partly owned by the Janney family, who owned "the mighty, ill-fated Ruffian. He runs in Ruffian's silks."

"the mighty, ill-fated Ruffian. He runs in Ruffian's silks."

Oh, I remember when she died.

Clean toilet. Tub scrubbed. Tomorrow involves moving the bed to de-Devify the carpet underneath. Uhg. (I do it a couplethree times a year anyway. This time, there might be crying, though.)

What about steering wheels though? What do cars without steering wheels use? Joysticks?

My Saturn was keyless for a while. In so far as, once the car was running, you could easily remove the key from the ignition and still drive, but if you wanted it to stop, you either had to drop the clutch, which I don't mind, or you had to put the key back in to turn it off. As you guess, this was not a feature they were selling.

I was supposed to co-facillitate a PD today. I got there and had to run 90% of the entire PD. Which would normally be fine, if I had prepped for 90% as opposed to the 10% I had prepped. So I went completely off script. And may have gotten myself in trouble.

Ooops.