New Vehicles Now The Prime Target For Car Thieves?

New Vehicles Now The Prime Target For Car Thieves? 

New Vehicles Now The Prime Target For Car Thieves? 

We live under the common assumption that, with a more modern vehicle we are less at risk for vehicle thievery, right?  No more unlocking our vehicle doors with a bent antenna or the old key fob? Well, it seems that as our vehicles have become more computerized so have our thieves become more computer literate. 

According to The Wall Street Journal, 'thieves are using computers to hack into car's electronic ignitions' by apparently, 'using the laptop to override the car's computer so that it recognizes a signal sent from the electronic key'. How this key is registered and what software allows this is still unknown.

So it seems in the U.S thieves have found more "modern" methods of bypassing electronics in cars, but what does this mean for the South-African market? Should we go into a frantic state and begin to sell our cars with ignition keys? Maybe not just yet, as the NICB Vice President Roger Morris advised, 'the public, law enforcement and manufacturers need to take note and be aware that this might be the newest trick in the trade'  

Video below:

Attempted theft of Jeep Wrangler Unlimited. Video posted by Houston Police Department’s Auto Theft Division

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