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.

  • friend_of_satan@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    71
    ·
    1 year ago

    What they are saying is they practice security through obscurity. Their security relies on people not knowing something that is simple to understand. This is fundamentally different from actual security where there is no easy way to defeat it no matter what you know.

  • SARGEx117@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    41
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    “it’s not our fault for making cars that could be stolen by literal children, it’s THEIR fault for talking about it!”

  • bcbrz@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    25
    ·
    1 year ago

    While the lack of immobilizer is dumb it makes sense they use that rationale as a way to cast doubt on their liability in the situation.

    I’m actually most surprised that insurance companies (and their own finance dept) have allowed it to happen. Eg, Subarus in the mid-2000s didn’t have immobilizers - insurance rates were very high (if allowed), eventually sales were affected and they added the feature.

  • Moonrise2473@feddit.it
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    22
    ·
    edit-2
    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
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      6
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      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.