| If you were born during the age of the internet, there is | | | | A mobile phone is designed to cut signals not within the |
| no denying that YouTube is a cultural phenomenon of | | | | normal range of human hearing or their speaking voice. |
| global proportions. This is where people post videos | | | | The frequency of a remote control door lock is either |
| that turn out to be legends in their own right. The more | | | | too high or too low for the human ear to hear, much |
| popular videos are the ones that feature techniques on | | | | like the frequency of a whistle used to call dogs. It |
| how to open car door locks. | | | | would be more effective to use a mobile locksmith to |
| This is a very popular video because it opens the | | | | open your door than it is for a mobile phone to do so. |
| possibility of getting access to the car door without a | | | | Another popular YouTube video is the one where they |
| real key. It is like keyless entry in a way. It also made | | | | try to open a car door that is locked and they do it by |
| people concerned because it could mean that their | | | | using a tennis ball. The way the video opens the door |
| expensive cars may be in danger of getting stolen. | | | | is by punch a small hole going directly to the center of |
| One of those myths deals with opening a locked car | | | | the ball. |
| door with the use of a cellular phone. In the video a | | | | The theory is that the tennis ball, when pressed would |
| person locks in their key inside the car. The car makes | | | | produce air pressure that will push the mechanism in |
| use of an automatic radio controlled lock. Luckily the | | | | the lock open long enough for the door lock to be |
| car owner has a spare key at home and a mobile | | | | opened. If this were true, a girl would just bring a tennis |
| phone. He calls his roommate and asks him to press | | | | ball in their purses and they instantly have a master |
| the unlock key and point it to the receiver of the | | | | key in their purse. |
| phone. He then points the speaker of the phone | | | | The problem is that there are holes in that theory. First |
| towards the car and the door magically opens. | | | | of all the tennis ball would not be able to push the pins |
| The theory behind this is that a cellular phone and the | | | | on the lock since the pins are spring loaded. It will also |
| remote control on a door lock operate using the same | | | | be difficult for the tennis ball to create a steady |
| technology which is radio frequencies. That is why | | | | stream of air for the lock to be activated. Finally, it will |
| when a person presses the signal through the mobile | | | | not be possible for the tennis ball to maintain the air |
| phone it travels like our voices do when we talk to our | | | | pressure to open the lock because the lock |
| friend. | | | | mechanism is not pressurized to contain air. |
| It may seem that it is a valid point, but this is merely a | | | | The moral lesson of the story is to not believe the |
| hoax designed to generate hits in YouTube. Although a | | | | videos you find in YouTube. If you are ever locked out |
| cellular phone uses radio frequencies to send the | | | | of your car, it would be better to call a Locksmith than |
| signals through it does not operate within the same | | | | make a futile attempt at trying these videos out. |
| frequencies. | | | | |