Comment on Dissing car brands is console wars for boomers
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 8 months agoThe wave of cars being stolen in the US via the use of USB cords has soured me on those brands permanently.
The fact that the vulnerability was fixed via a software patch did not do wonders for my opinion either.
Mr_Blott@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Did you even read my comment?
HollandJim@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Location is irrelevant … That was choice by Hyundai/Kia, to cheap out and remove the immobilizers.
Mr_Blott@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Which they only did in the States. Nowhere else. Because they could. Because they have to be competitive with US manufacturers, who are all pulling the same shit
There’s a good reason US-made cars don’t sell well outside the US
HollandJim@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Nope - US manufacturers are NOT pulling the same shit. Kia/Hyundai are the only brand in the US without immobilizers because they thought they could skimp there instead of a posher interior or more electro-gadgets. It was a stupid, stupid call and it should impact their reputation. If they skimp on something as elemental as security, where else have they skimped…?
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 8 months ago
Yes.
I was trying to add a bit of context for those who don’t know.