{"id":91,"date":"2011-03-02T02:23:01","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T02:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csdaudio.com\/blog\/?p=91"},"modified":"2015-07-08T07:58:30","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T07:58:30","slug":"you-dont-have-to-join-the-dark-side-to-magically-start-your-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.csdaudio.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/02\/you-dont-have-to-join-the-dark-side-to-magically-start-your-car\/","title":{"rendered":"You don&#8217;t have to join the dark side to magically start your car.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every year the Super Bowl usually sets a new record for number of viewers. This year raked in a pretty amazing 111 million viewers, but not everybody tunes in to catch the game &#8212; the commercials that debut have a history of being almost as entertaining as the game itself.<\/p>\n<p>The commercial took the top spot this year was Volkswagen&#8217;s &#8220;The Force&#8221; commercial, featuring a kid dressed as Darth Vader attempting to use the Force to move and control objects with his mind, and in the end &#8220;succeeding&#8221; by starting his father&#8217;s new Passat. Dear ol\u2019 dad simply used his remote start car starter from the kitchen window, but the kid&#8217;s reaction to succeeding is priceless (although his many failures in the beginning are pretty amusing too).<\/p>\n<p>Yoda uses a Directed SmartStart<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after the spot aired, a spoof of the commercial was released on the interwebs that featured Yoda harnessing the power of the Force (and a Direct Electronics SmartStart) to start a Camaro. Darth&#8217;s dad may be able to start the car from his kitchen window, but thanks to his smart phone-powered SmartStart, Yoda can start his car from just about anywhere in the world.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"270\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/sWlCB8mVmWw&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;version=3\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/sWlCB8mVmWw&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;version=3\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the original vid&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R55e-uHQna0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year the Super Bowl usually sets a new record for number of viewers. This year raked in a pretty amazing 111 million viewers, but not everybody tunes in to catch the game &#8212; the commercials that debut have a history of being almost as entertaining as the game itself. The commercial took the top [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[48,49,50,47],"class_list":["post-91","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-car-audio","category-technology","tag-dei","tag-remote-start","tag-security","tag-smart-start"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csdaudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csdaudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csdaudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csdaudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csdaudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.csdaudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205,"href":"https:\/\/www.csdaudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions\/205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csdaudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csdaudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csdaudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}