Patent ID: 8053922

Claim:
Apparatus for operating vehicles ( 20 ) with two different operating systems, namely with an access authorization system for releasing and locking of doors ( 24 ) or hatches ( 28 , 27 ) in the vehicle ( 20 ), as a first operating system, with a driving authorization system for starting, operating, and stopping an engine in the vehicle ( 20 ) and enabling and disabling a steering wheel ( 18 ) of the vehicle ( 20 ), as a second operating system, and with a control unit ( 33 ) for both systems, which is operated by two different communication devices, wherein the communication devices consist of two different stationary transmitter-receiver units ( 25 , 25 ′) in the vehicle ( 20 ) but only one common mobile transmitter-receiver unit in a wireless hand telephone (mobile phone 10 ), and the control unit ( 33 ) checks the transmitted data and, corresponding to checked results, activates or deactivates the two associated systems, with a SIM-card, for the telephonic network operation of the mobile phone ( 10 ), which can be inserted in and, if necessary, removed from its housing, wherein the SIM card ( 15 ) simultaneously serves as the carrier both for the access authorization data of the communication ( 16 ) and vehicle-specific driving authorization data ( 16 ) for rendering operative the engine electronics, for starting and for operating the engine, are arranged on the SIM-card ( 15 ), and with a hands-free system in the vehicle ( 20 ) for a bi-directional local communication (bluetooth system 30 ) of the mobile phone ( 10 ) which operates in the GHz range, wherein the two different communications devices are formed, on the one hand, as an external communication device ( 25 ′) at the vehicle, which automatically transmits the access authorization data without actuation of buttons on the mobile phone ( 10 ) when the mobile phone ( 10 ) is in a vehicle exterior position ( 32 ), and, on the other hand, as an internal communication device ( 25 ) arranged in the vehicle interior ( 22 ) which recognizes the vehicle interior position of the mobile phone ( 10 ) and which, without actuating any buttons on the mobile phone ( 10 ), automatically transmits the driving authorization data, and wherein the driving authorization data ( 16 ) of the SIM-card ( 15 ) are received and evaluated by the near communication (bluetooth-system 30 ) of the mobile phone ( 10 ) which operates in the GHz range with the internal communication devices.