Comment on Honda says making cheap electric vehicles is too hard, ends deal with GM

• Vash63@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I thought only the American models were easy to steal because they left out some critical antitheft features on the lowest cost models? Didn’t think it impacted other countries.

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  • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Pretty sure their refering to the fact that certain Kia(?) models could be jacked using a screwdriver and USB. Basically the engines power button was shit. This is also why I dont fucking trust cars that use startup buttons, atleast if someone hotwires the car they had to work for it.

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    • RandomGen1@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It only affected key start cars, if it was push button start, it was immune to the attack you describe.

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      • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I was going off of something I vaguely remembered. But now my question is why the actual fuck was the key start system setup so badly.

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• sndrtj@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Not in Europe. That fiasco only happened in the US.

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• reversedposterior@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Because the US doesn’t make engine immobilisers mandatory like the rest of the world does

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