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In an episode of Oprah, Oprah Winfrey, the show's host, surprised her audience by giving them each keys. Not just any keys, but keys to a brand new Pontiac G6, a car that could easily cut through San Francisco's Lombard Street's winding corners. She gave over 276 audience members a new car. Such is the power of a key; it is a symbol, an access to something of value, in the case of the audience members, the keys also symbolized their ownership of the new car. Locksmith San Francisco won't give you new cars (not yet anyway), but what they will do is teach you all about different car keys.
The car keys Oprah gave to her audience members then were metal keys with a bit. This type of key is the very popular according to locksmith San Francisco professionals, and is the oldest type used for cars, dating back to the first models. This is the most easily replaced key, as only a key cutting machine is needed by locksmith San Francisco to create a duplicate/replacement. A key cutting machine will literally cut the key out of a blank using an existing key pattern, which is placed on top.
A type of car key more popularly being used today, and is overtaking metal keys in popularity of use, is the transponder key. A transponder key has a built-in electronic chip that is used to send signals to another chip that is located in a car. This enables a driver to do things like unlock car doors and start the engine, all with the push of a button.
There are also more advanced types of car keys used today that locksmith San Francisco experts specialize in, for instance, infrared keys use infrared light emitting diodes (LED) to transmit signals to a receiver in a car, like how a transponder key works. There is also a variation of the metal key, which is called a switchblade key. The switchblade key works exactly like a switchblade: when a button is pressed, the key blade springs out of the key fob.
