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Kia and Hyundai Blame TikTok and Instagram For Their Cars Getting Stolen::In a court filing, the companies argue that social media companies “caused an unprecedented increase in thefts.” The cars being stolen didn’t have basic anti-theft technology.

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[-] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

How much money they could have possibly saved, considering that anyway they keys have the electronics for the remote control?

$3 per car?

in 1997 i bought a fiat panda for 5000 euro (new, was the most barebone car sold in western countries for the last 4 decades) and it came with the immobilizer on the key. If it came free in a car that in 1997 was so barebone that they glued the back windows instead of allowing passengers to breathe (no AC), how 2 decades later can be considered an expensive premium feature?

Couldn't they offer this as a $300 optional feature that everyone would buy?

[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Couldn’t they offer this as a $300 optional feature that everyone would buy?

Pretty sure they fixed it, but if your car is more than a year old, then this still works.

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