• mosiacmango@lemm.ee
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    1 month ago

    The Kia/Hyundai “challenge” where people were stealing their cars with a USB cord is because they opted not to include an immobilizer in US models for a decade. Every other car brand had them as standard. Kia even had them as standard in non US cars, but because the USA stupidly does not have a law about it, they opted to drastically reduce car security to save a few dollars per car.

    This has made them prime targets, as people know they make bad security choices whenever they can save a buck.

    So a bit of both, I expect.

    • dan@upvote.au
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      1 month ago

      I’m still amazed that immobilizers aren’t a legal requirement in the USA, and that Kia would remove them from US models just to save a small amount of money.