Automotive Evolution: From Digital Keys to Haunted Evacuation Spots

Digital car keys are changing how we access and interact with our vehicles forever. While fobs and physical keys have been the standard for decades, smartphone-based digital keys are gaining incredible momentum—set to quadruple from 15 million to 59 million vehicles by 2031. This transformation extends far beyond just unlocking doors.
The technology has evolved remarkably since Siemens introduced a credit card-sized precursor for Mercedes in the 1990s. Today's digital keys allow unprecedented flexibility: share access with family via WhatsApp, set speed restrictions for teen drivers, or even authorize Amazon delivery personnel to securely leave packages in your trunk. BMW's upcoming Digital Key Plus will take this further by automatically unlocking your vehicle as you approach, no phone-in-hand required.
For Texans contemplating hurricane evacuation routes, Marrs offers unique destination alternatives to mundane motel stays. From the supposedly haunted historic town of Jefferson to Bandera (the cowboy capital of the world) and the oldest town in Texas (Nacogdoches), these charming locales transform necessary evacuations into memorable adventures with museums, wineries, and distinctive local culture.
Car enthusiasts will appreciate our Hemmings auction roundup featuring remarkable finds like a 6,474-mile 1969 Chevrolet Caprice with a factory 427 V8—the quintessential "sleeper" that sold for just $23,363. Meanwhile, a significant US-European Union trade agreement could revolutionize automotive standards, allowing vehicles built for one market to be sold in the other without costly modifications.
Check out our complete racing calendar and automotive history segment, then join us in two weeks when we'll be broadcasting from our new studio at the Hemi Hideout. The automotive world is evolving rapidly—are you keeping pace?
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Show Introduction
Speaker 1Welcome to another In Wheel Time podcast , a 30-minute mini version of the In Wheel Time Car Show that airs live every Saturday morning 8 to 11 am Central . This is your place for all things automotive . I'm taking phone calls as we speak about the comment about 8th grade girls , the award-winning In Wheel Time Car Talk Show coming up . Our automotive story of the week Recalls Soul Car Roundup and Mars Driving Destinations . Jeff has the racing calendar . Mars has this Week in Auto History . I'll get you caught up on the stories making automotive news headlines . Howdy , along with Mike out of this world , mars . We always need more . Jeff Zekin . Chief Engineer David Ainsley . I'm Don Armstrong , so glad that you could join us on this Saturday . You're probably going . I don't know whether I like this show or not . Got some sick stuff going on up there . All right , gotcha , you got it , got it . So here's what we're going to do . We're going to start off with our Mars driving destinations and we did this because we ran out of time in a segment that we did .
Speaker 2Yeah , a little glitch this morning .
Speaker 1Well , we didn't .
Speaker 2One of our guests did . Well , that's okay , we had a glitch .
Speaker 1It worked . It did work out okay . It kind of added to the suspense of this show like it normally does .
Mars' Hurricane Evacuation Destinations
Speaker 3All right .
Speaker 1Mr Mars driving destinations , sir .
Speaker 3So I got to thinking Labor Day is coming up and we've started watching the Gulf , looking for the hurricanes , because of the weather , because of where we're located at . And I got to thinking well , you know , everybody can go off to San Antonio or Dallas or Waco , any place north . Just go find some place . And I've done that a couple of times with the wife and the kids and the dogs and the cats loaded up into a Motel 6 because that's the only place that would take the pets , and it was not a lot of fun . So I was thinking about what else you could do and then so I thought some of the other places you could go that you might could make a little bit of a road trip in a hurricane out of it , somehow the hurricane blew in , yeah , yeah , yeah .
Speaker 3So go up into the Lukenbach and the Fredericksburg area . You know you can go find you some hill country bed and breakfasts or you can get some cabins . Lukenbach actually has cabins on a little creek across from the post office thing . You can go to the Lukenbach Dance Hall Been there , yeah , been there . And you can also go up to Fredericksburg . It's right next door with the wineries , beer gardens , the National Museum of the Pacific War and lots of boutiques . Then , if you're looking for something a little bit more to the north , go to Wimberley , which is another artsy small town , and you can stay in the river cabins that they have there or the Wimberley Inn . They've got the Wimberley Glassworks Studio . You've got places to go swimming , like the Blue Hole or Jacob's Well , and then you could also go through the Wimberley Valley Winery to get wound up at the end of the day . The other place a little bit more to the east is Jefferson . Now you can stay at the Jefferson Hotel here , and this is famous for being haunted . Jefferson's considered one of the most haunted towns in Texas . I did not know that , did not Got plenty of antique shopping .
Speaker 3You've got a train , the Jefferson Railway They'll take you out through the Piney Woods , got a bayou riverboat tour . They even have a Gone with the Wind museum there . That I did not know . Then you can also go a little bit more centralized Go to Tyler . It's in East Texas but it's known as the Rose Capital . Got a lot of stuff for evacuees . You can go to the Tyler Rose Garden . They got a zoo . They got lakes to go and play , with Plenty of hotels medical facilities and restaurants .
Speaker 3I don't believe I've ever played with a lake . Have you Well play in . I've played a lot of other things . A town I really like and my wife loves it , is Nacogdoches . Now , it's not really that far north , but it is farther north , got its historic and charming . It's actually the oldest town in Texas , nacogdoches .
Speaker 3Nacogdoches I knew that Got brick paved downtown , got plenty of museums . Rick Pave downtown got plenty of museums . Stephen F Austin is there . They got trails to go hiking in if you want to get out and about . They don't have that many hotels there because it's not that big of a town . It is a college town so you got to make your reservations here . But it's a real nice place to go visit If you want to do something more with the kids .
Speaker 3Glen Rose is another small town . Now this is home of the Dinosaur Valley State Park . There's actually fossilized dinosaur tracks that you can go down through the riverbeds and check out . But here if you're an evacuee , you don't have to necessarily stay in a hotel . You can camp , you can hike , you can go , do all kinds of things in that area . And the last one I wanted to bring up was Bandera .
Speaker 3Now this is a little more west . If you're going out towards San Antonio , you want to go a little more west . This is the cowboy capital of the world . This is a place for rodeo fans , western culture lovers One of the things that I liked whenever we've been there before along with their museums and the cowboy look to it and everything . It's very hilly there , the entrance to the stores and stuff and the bar right behind where these cowboys are riding down Main Street . You actually have to go downstairs down the side of the hill and the bar and everything's down below and it's kind of like going to a speakeasy , right . So there's just be a few places that you could go if you're going to evacuate and maybe have a little more fun than a Motel 6 in San Antonio . There you go .
Speaker 2Nice Evacuate .
Speaker 3God , I hope we don't ever have to do that again .
Speaker 2It's tough .
Speaker 1Our story
Digital Keys: The Future of Car Access
Speaker 1of the week . As vehicles become more integrated with digital technology , the options for gaining or granting access to the car are expanding , including the use of digital keys so that it is possible to unlock a vehicle using a smartphone . The number of vehicles shipped with digital key features will almost quadruple to more than 59 million by 2031 , up from 15 million in 2023 , according to a December 24 report from ABI Research . Siemens debuted a precursor to today's digital key in the 1990s . It was a Mercedes-Benz . I remember having one back when we used to get Mercedes-Benz in the press fleet . Really cool . It looked like this particular thing , looked like a credit card . You put it in your wallet . That's all you got to do , and it did everything . In 2018 , bmw launched a smartphone basedbased digital key using near-field communication technology called NFC , near-field communication , allowing drivers to unlock and start their cars without a physical fob . Since then , the technology has continued to expand across the luxury auto market the luxury auto market , with many luxury brands offering digital key capabilities through apps , smartphone wallets and other connected devices , such as the Apple Watch . One feature automakers offer is the ability to share the digital key with friends or family , or even connect the key to a smart home to activate the garage door , the Amazon delivery guy can leave the package in the trunk of the car instead of in the front of the door of your house by getting access to the trunk at the right time , making deliveries a bit more secure .
Speaker 1Experts say digital keys go beyond the convenience of automatically unlocking a vehicle . A digital key radically increases customer loyalty to the vehicle companion app . Gartner vice president of research , pedro Pacheco , said Most people don't find the digital devices very useful , but they do understand the benefit of a digital key and they use it . He said automakers , including Tesla , bmw and Hyundai , all quickly realized that a digital key was a way to keep the company app installed on drivers' smartphones . Some automakers offer expanded digital key functionality . For example , tesla's digital key will also automatically open the trunk or the frunk , depending on where you're standing . He said Another benefit is cost savings for the automaker and the vehicle owner . So , in other words , forget the fob , you just do it on your phone , so you don't have to have two things .
Speaker 1The update , which simplifies the smartphone-based key setup process , will extend to several additional models in July and August , according to the company . Revised system introduces a setup card which allows users to initiate the digital key pairing process by scanning a QR code or tapping the card to a supported smartphone . Once activated , the digital key can be shared with up to 18 devices . Owners can assign different levels of access and permissions to each user , including restrictions on acceleration and top speed , features aimed at use cases such as novice drivers , kids going off to school , et cetera . For all vehicles underpinned by BMW's forthcoming new class architecture , the company's Digital Key Plus will be standard . The vehicle automatically opens , starts and closes without the need for the customer to pull out a phone . The key can be shared with friends and family via messaging applications such as WhatsApp , so if you don't have one , it's coming and it will be in your future soon , and I think it is .
Speaker 2How do I say this ? It's already been out there .
Speaker 1Well , it has it's already out there , yeah not to this level . This takes it up a notch , puts it on your phone . You don't have to do anything , Just have your phone on you and it does it all automatically .
Speaker 2You set it up ahead of time , you know when we were on the Hot Rod Tour , everybody had a key to their room . All you had to do was touch the door . Yep , and it's the same thing . You can actually program that In the Disney resorts . You can program that key onto your phone . There you go , so it's already out there . It's just a matter of they took their time .
Speaker 3But , once you get it on your phone .
Speaker 1your phone goes dead , oh no , I'm sure that there's some way around that . Somebody's thought of that . You don't let your phone go dead , only you do that .
Speaker 2Mars . I know a person very close to me that loses her phone all the time or forgets it . Can you call my phone so I can find it Halfway to work and coming back in the house I forgot my phone . Stuff like that .
Speaker 3This solves that , though . What about theft ? Because they can't go out and get their car started ? That's true . What about theft ? This solves that , though . What about theft , because they can't go out and get their car started ? That's true . What about theft ?
Speaker 2Now I've seen things not recently , but where they put a chip in your wrist and you can do things with your banking and all that .
Speaker 1You know , I think I'm going to pass on that . Yeah , Speaking of things like that , let's do some recalls , shall we
Ford Recall Roundup
Speaker 1All right ? Headlights may fail on the Ford Mustang , the Ford Mach-E and the Nautilus for 2025 .
Speaker 2Here we go with Ford again . We should do a recall and you guess the manufacturer . That's what we should do , all right .
Speaker 3But everybody who knows it would be Ford .
Speaker 1Here's one Window . Automatic reversal system malfunction on what Volkswagen , ford , lincoln , nautilus 24 to 25 . Parking lights may flicker on what Mercedes Ford F-150 for 2022 . Blank instrument panel display on Ford Mustang for 2024 . Parking lights may flicker on .
Speaker 2Pickup truck Chevy .
Speaker 3We already had Ford for that .
Speaker 2We did .
Speaker 1It's a repeat here , okay .
Speaker 2So Ford's the correct answer . I get it .
Speaker 1Loss of brake power assist on the Ford Mach-E for 2021 . Wow , rear axle hub bolt may break on the Ford F-E for 2021 . Wow , rear axle hub bolt may break on the Ford F-150 , 23 to 25 . A hub bolt , lincoln Corsair Rear view camera may not display . Then we got a couple of other makers Mercedes-Benz , amg , gla , 24 to 25 . Missing aim markings on the headlights .
Speaker 2Okay , that's a recall yeah , the aim markings .
Speaker 1Daytime running lights may malfunction on the Nissan Frontier for 2025 . Those are the recalls . I didn't guess them right . I'm really disappointed with Ford . I don't understand . I understand that you know they do specs and they send it out to the suppliers and say here it is , how much is this going to cost us ? Oh no , that's too expensive . Let's go with the cheaper one . Okay , we'll buy that one , and then they all fail . It's not good .
Speaker 2Well , it's not necessarily that You're going to buy that widget and you got the widget . If buy this widget , we'll give you this other widget that you can use in this , and that's how they they package it , yeah or , or we'll give you a new 42 foot yacht there's that what who's got that ? Not me . No , it wasn't me . Are we doing this , uh ?
Speaker 1not yet . Okay , let's do . Uh hemming sold cars
Hemmings Car Auction Results
Speaker 1round even better .
Speaker 2Let me get out of this I have some interesting ones .
Speaker 1We're going to start off with an interesting car , and I say it's an interesting car because it is a 1963 Chevrolet Corvette and this is the split window coupe . How much do you think that this car sold on hemmingscom a week ago ? A week ago , pardon me , 1963 chevy . It looks all stock . That looks brilliant , it looks beautiful . How much ?
Speaker 3125 it , it , man . There's so many things that can make that thing , either a 125 car , or a 40 car or a 225 car . Oh , that's true , I'm going to go for the fact that I'm going to go with 150 .
Speaker 1Well you're close 140 , 700 . Here's the next one . This is going to be our feature car of the week , because I know you're going to ask me about it , don . Why did you select this one ? This is a 1969 Chevrolet Caprice . Notice that it's got wheel rim trim on it , and it's got I thought it had red striped tires , but it looks stock , doesn't it ? Well , it is . This car has 6,474 miles on it . Nothing is driving it there . However , it does have a 427 in it .
Speaker 3I was going to say I don't see the emblems on it With an automatic transmission .
Speaker 1It's a coupe blue . Look at the Medium blue cloth and vinyl interior , the dual exhaust . Now , this is what we have always called a sleeper .
Speaker 3Yes , sir .
Speaker 1Let's give you . Let me give you some . I don't want to belabor this , but this is a fun thing . 335 horsepower , 427 V8 with a turbo-hydromatic transmission . Sutter believes that the engine in the car is original to it . It comes completely rebuilt and repainted with new air cleaner decals . They were applied . Quadrajet carburetor it's all stock , stock , stock stuff . 342 to 1 gear set . Code number 53 , glacier blue . They made a bajillion of them . Trim code 822 reveals a medium blue cloth and vinyl bench interior seat . An aftermarket tachometer gauges and stereo were added . Power steering , power front brakes . How much do you think that this car sold ? 42 . Really .
Speaker 3Yeah , Eitzman says 14,000 . I hope he's looking at the same car we are . He's probably looking at the red one . I'm going to go 28 .
Speaker 1Well , you sir were closer , this car sold for 2323,363 . I , don Armstrong , would buy that car . I would too .
Speaker 2I was just way off .
Speaker 1Because that car right there that will go a gajillion miles with the three-speed turbo hydromatic . The 427 is the lower horsepower , not the 435 horse .
Speaker 2I'm all in , but it's only got 6,000 miles on it , so you've got plenty of play around . Well , with the rebuild , yeah .
Speaker 1Okay , next up the 2006 Ford Mustang convertible . 2006 Ford Mustang convertible .
Speaker 2I'm going to go 21 .
Speaker 1Okay . Do we have any other bidders online this morning ?
Speaker 3Mr Heitzman was there . He hasn't recuperated from his low bid on the Chevrolet All right .
Speaker 1Well , jeff , you're spot on $21,525 . Finally , got off the schneid . Next up , a 1997 Land Rover Defender 90 . How much A 97 ? A 1997 . Looks like it's been restored 41 . Jeff says 41 . What do you say , Mike ?
Speaker 3I would think I would go 35 . Heitzman says 31 .
Speaker 132 , 550 . Next up , Volvo Greta Rogers , my fifth grade teacher , had one of these 71 Volvo 1800E .
Speaker 2Sold for ? Oh gosh , I have no idea . 19 . 19 . Mars .
Speaker 3I'm going to say 25 . 25 .
Speaker 1Anybody else ? 27 , 563 . That's a clean , cool car . You said your teacher had one of these Fifth grade teacher .
Speaker 2Oh , I thought you said eighth grade .
Speaker 1Greta Rogers . No , not the eighth grade . She would have had to separate me and the eighth grade girls that I tossed around . 2001 . Bmw Z8 . Rare car , powerful Nice . This looks super clean . Stan had one of these . Let me ask that anymore .
Speaker 2How much .
Speaker 1What did that car the 2001 BMW Z8 , sell for $27,000. ?
Speaker 3I'm guessing I was going to go for $35,000 .
Speaker 1How about $133,875 ? What ?
Speaker 2It's just a down payment is what I was talking about . Oh yeah , yeah , I'm going to end it on this ?
Speaker 1No , I can't , but you need to move along . Here you ready , yeah , 69 Dodge Dart Swinger .
Speaker 2Quick 21 .
Speaker 3Yeah , I was going to go 18 .
Speaker 123-1 . I'll take it , here's Jeff's car . There you go . 1996 Buick .
Speaker 2Roadmaster $9,000 .
Speaker 1I'll go $12,000 . Jeff wins $10,000 , even man . And the last but not least , this is Mars car . Oh yeah , a 73 Chrysler Newport Ford horse sedan Looks like a one owner .
Speaker 3How much Looks like the hood's rusting off of it . I'm going to go $6,000 .
Speaker 1$6,000 . How much you , jeff ? $11,000 . $3,500 . I had to . Yeah , all righty then . Well , let's take a quick break . Just ahead , jeff has the racing calendar , mars has this week in auto history and hopefully I'll have enough time to bring you some more auto news headlines . The In Real Time Car Talk Show continues right after this quick break .
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Racing Calendar and Auto History
Speaker 1. Jeff has it Sponsored by Texas Muscle Car Club Challenge .
Speaker 2Thank you for that . Imsa is going on tomorrow at the Virginia International Speedway . It's on Peacock , so take a look at that , you've got . Indy is on tomorrow as well . It's the Milwaukee Mile . Now , indy is pretty much going to be one more race after tomorrow and then , of course , the end of the season . Nhra is off this weekend , august 27th , through September 1st .
Speaker 2They go next week . Right , right right . Cornwell Quality Tools , nhra Nationals Craftsman Truck Series was off . They start their playoffs in Darlington on the 30th , which is a Saturday . Xfinity ran last night . I was starting to watch the playback this morning . I didn't get to finish it . I don't know who won . So that was on there . They ran at Daytona last night . So that raises over . I'll let you know . The NASCAR Cup they're at Daytona tonight and they're going to be at 7.30 pm on NBC . So everybody's got that . Go for it . You've got Formula One . They've got the Dutch Grand Prix coming up on the 31st . I think the trophy's a little wooden shoe , so go ahead . There you go , okay .
Speaker 3All right , mr Mars mars , this week in auto history . Sir , yeah , I found a lot of interesting things this week in auto history . Um , this week in 1897 , ransom olds got his patent for his motor carriage . Now this is what led to the development of the curved dash osmobile . That's famous for being the first mass-produced American car that was ever set up , even before Henry Ford . But one of the things I found out about while I was looking at this was that he actually built 11 prototype vehicles and he included one each of every power motor available at the time . That was the steam electric gasoline , and in 1934 , he got a patent for a diesel engine . So he became the only American automotive pioneer to produce and sell at least one vehicle of every mode transportation that was available . I thought that was really cool .
Speaker 3Even before Henry Ford this week , in 1902 , I did not know . Henry Ford's first company . The Henry Ford Company was a failure , his first attempt at building vehicles . The Henry Ford Company was a failure , his first attempt at building vehicles . And so while he was in the process of going through and getting rid of all that , he got , them all recalled Well .
Speaker 3So the guys that came out to look at the plants and all the facilities that he had and he was selling it off , and they ended up being investors , and that included Henry Leland , and that's what led to the actual development of the Cadillac automobile company and it became known for its precision engineering and luxury because of all the engineers that started it and that carried on to its long-term standard of the world quality . This week , in 1909 , the Indianapolis Motor Speedway opens . Now this I did not know , but they actually had balloon races while it was still under construction and I thought it was so weird . So all these people come out to watch these balloons , they lift up and they go three or four hundred miles and the race is over . Nobody sees the ending . But when it actually opened , it actually opened originally with motorcycle races , and then they had a three-day racing schedule that 15 automakers signed up for and showed up with their vehicles .
Speaker 3Now , the first day of racing there was 15,000 to 20,000 spectators . They watched the 250-mile race and they had a car flip because of a broken rear axle , went end over end , killed the driver and the ride-along mechanic Wasn't a Ford , was it ? Didn't say Now , after some overnight surface repairs , the second day there was 20,000 people that showed up and they had no major accidents . So the third day , 35,000 spectators watched the 300-mile race and at mile 175 , a car blew a tire , causing him to go into the fence . No wall , this is pre-wall but it went into the fence , mowed down the fence and took out a dozen spectators . Two of them died and a mechanic was killed . Ten laps later , they had a car hit a pothole because of all this going on on the track because this is pre-brick and caused it to crash into the bridge . The race was halted and all the remaining drivers were given certificates of completion . Oh God .
Speaker 2Blue ribbons for every kid that plays , everybody got a trophy , oh Lord .
Speaker 1Two years and 3 .
Speaker 3That's where that crap started Exactly , indy . Two years and 3.2 million bricks later , they actually held the first real Indy 500 , and so it changed from a crushed stone oval and became the Brickyard .
Speaker 1Thank you , sir . One sentence in the United States-European Union's Framework for Trade Agreement could usher in some of the biggest changes in the auto industry it has seen in a century . With respect to automobiles , the US and the European Union intend to accept and provide mutual recognition to each other's standards . According to a joint statement a couple of days ago , the commission said it wants to identify and develop standards with the US with a view of making trade across the Atlantic easier , because , you know , there's standards for Europe and there's standards for us , and so they're going to try to meld the two together so we don't have to go through all this rigmarole and they don't have to build extra parts and all that stuff . The potential changes could allow vehicles to be certified for sale in the EU or in the US Exactly as built US automakers could ship vehicles to Europe without meeting European pedestrian crash standards and other rules that differ from those of the EPA , nhtsa or the Department of Transportation . All right , that's
US-EU Auto Standards Agreement
Speaker 1the news story of the week , and that's it . We're going to finish up today's show Right after this quick break . Stay with us .
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