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In Reply to: RE: Kia, Hyundai Release Software to Stop Car Thefts posted by AbeCollins on February 16, 2023 at 06:44:26
I drive a 2016 SOUL and don't really care, but if I did, I can just slap on my CLUB and not even lock it.
The only difference between K/H right now and everybody else 10, 20 40 years ago, is we have YouTube videos and social media found on our phones and in our pockets.
Chris
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Besides, everybody knows, you want to steal a car, you just reach up under the instrument panel, yank two wires down--any two wires--touch 'em together and the car starts.
Just like in the movies or on TV.
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In New Orleans they just order the driver out at gun point and drive away. Last I saw, car jacking rate is around one per hour. It's a free Uber less the driver. Oh and the jackers aren't old enough to drive or own a gun.
and it was in HiDef for the win.
Chris
Apparently the push-button start cars can't be stolen with an USB cable but insurance companies are refusing to cover them anyway.
I'm not worried about resale value, we plan to keep the car until it's used up or the kids take the car keys away, which ever comes first.
I take really good car of my cars, and they last.
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Off topic but I had to take the car keys away from my Dad a few years ago. I actually took the entire car away by selling it. Dad was suffering from dementia and unsafe driving. As soon as he agreed that he shouldn't be driving I sold the car. He never forgave me for that move. RIP.
My mother was the nurse administrator for an assisted-living facility, before she retired. Being assisted-living (not a full-blown nursing home), many of the residents still had cars, and still drove themselves. One resident was slipping into mild to moderate dementia, so his daughter took his keys (and the car) away. He just got a ride to the dealer and bought a new one--five times in the course of a month and a half. It was a private facility, and the residents there had money--a lot of money. He purchased 5 new Cadillacs in less than two full months, until she managed to get him declared medically/legally incompetent.
"And today is for sale and it's all you can afford. Buy your own admission. The whole things got you bored. Well the Lord chooses the good ones, and the bad ones use the Lord"--a very dear friend for decades Michael Stanley (Gee)--RIP
My dad had dimentia as well. He insisted his driving was fine and would not entertain the idea that he should stop.
Getting tough with him was ...um ...tough.
One day I noticed a big dent and scratch on his car and brought him outside to show him.
He asked who had done it, to which I replied "probably you!".
I took the keys ...and boy was he unhappy.
Worse was yet to come, for us both, little did we know.
Dimentia sucks.
Dean.
reelsmith's axiom: Its going to be used equipment when I sell it, so it may as well be used equipment when I buy it.
Mom had all her marbles but couldn't see or turn her head from side to side.
The decision was made easier when her car rusted out to the point that it couldn't be repaired and she couldn't afford another car.
Too bad, it was a really sweet little Mitsubishi sedan and it was fun to drive even with that automatic. I took her to her doctors appointments in it.
Dad was ordered by his doctors to stop driving and went along pretty meekly.
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