Do you have the habit of forgetting your car keys often? Are you looking for new-age solutions to this issue? You can probably have a look at what this girl recently did to never face this problem again.
Just joking. Don’t! Unless you are OK inserting a chip inside your body that is able to open up your car. That is exactly what Amie Doubled did with the valet card of her Tesla Model 3. She took out the RFID chip from the card using acetone and then inserted it into a biopolymer which was further injected into her left arm. Daring eh?
In essence, the attempt did not come as a solution to the problems cited above. That is because Tesla already has an answer to that, as you can open up your Tesla cars through your smartphone as well. So why did Amie perform such an audacious move?
Amie DD during the procedure of implanting the chip in her arm. (Screenshot: YouTube)
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This is not the first time that Amie is using such a biohack. In a YouTube video, she explains that she got a similar RFID implant a few years ago in her left hand. It basically means access control for certain pre-programmed things. The earlier implant could unlock a phone and perform a specific action like opening the browser, or even open the doors in her house.
It was later that Amie booked a Tesla Model 3 for herself. When she got to know that the car uses a similar RFID chip in its valet card, she had this idea of rewriting the access code in another chip and inserting that into her hand. The idea, however, could not be implemented as Tesla’s security would not allow the code to be rewritten into another card.
That is when Amie decided to take out the existing RFID chip with acetone and use the same for the insertion. Impressive, right? You can check out the procedure in the video below but we would recommend you not to if you have a problem with watching blood on screen.
With a background in game simulation and programming, Amie carried on with the process and got the chip installed in her arm through the use of a biopolymer. Kudos Amie! One question though. Does it work? Because nowhere in her video has the implant been shown to actually work on a Tesla.
So if you ask us about the idea of having a chip embedded into one’s body for unlocking a car, we would probably just suggest using a good, long key ring that attaches to your clothes instead.