Mystery In Bremerton – Why Don’t Keyless Remotes Work?. Starting abruptly last Thursday morning, the keyless remotes of nearly all cars — domestic and imported, new and old, including unsold cars on dealers’ lots — in the Bremerton WA area stopped working. When a car is driven outside the local area, the remote works again. Aircraft carrier U.S.S. Carl Vinson returned to port in Bremerton from seven weeks at sea at almost exactly the time this started, but the Navy says the ship has been swept for emissions and “…doesn’t appear to be emitting any frequencies that might have an effect on these remote control devices,” said a spokesperson. Sunspot and solar flare activity are near their cyclical peak, but there would be no reason any disruption of transmission would be restricted in frequency, geographically localized, or consistent across so long a period of time.