The amount of electronics thrown away rather than recycled in 2007.
The EPA reports that 82% of electronics disposal in 2007 ended up in the garbage (mostly landfills) rather than a recycling center. (source: EPA, July 2008)
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This is pretty simple to do: buy an eleborate car starter, and remove the FR receiver, and affix Nokia's GSM module (the kind used in vending machines to communicated when they need to be refilled - nokia.com) and with some java programming, boom. Instant 18 year old patent filer.
She is probably some kid who always looses her keys, and say something like "gee dad, I wish I could start my car with my cell phone" ---because kids will never lose those.
Then, the dad figured everything else out.