Comment on Hyundai and Kia car thefts fall sharply after software upgrade, study finds

sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Here’s my simple solution: be unable to operate a car.

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  • xavier666@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Simpler solution: Drive stick

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    • EatATaco@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I once got into my car and was surprised how the seat was farther back then when I left it. I glanced around and it was clear someone had jimmied the passenger door open.

      I’m fairly confident, although I have nothing to back this up, that when they realized it was a stick, they decided not to try and steal it.

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I miss my stick. My starter went out, so I push started it for a few months until I had the time and money to get it fixed. With an automatic, I’m just screwed…

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• BigDiction@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I went from an 07 Escape to a 2023 RAV4. The thing just won’t shut the fuck up. Mike any kinda of parking the detection beeps. Console software is annoying.

  Miss my relatively dumb car.

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  • ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The legal requirement that cars just beep within zero seconds if you start them without a buckled seatbelt is just actively harmful to safety. It trains you to despise and ignore all safety alarms. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alarm_fatigue

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    • OutsizedWalrus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      But that’s not actually a thing. I start both of my newer vehicles before I’m buckled. No beeping until I actually put it in drive.

      It rarely happens because I always buckle

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      • ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Oh thank fuck they finally fixed that. Or maybe it’s a California thing?

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  • slumberlust@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My wifes genesis is the same. Beeps if you do something beeps if you don’t beep beep beep beep. All the telemetry bullshit and bad ui combined with cheap hardware and latency. It sucks …

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• Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Bonus: If it’s old enough and you get into a collision, your car will be fine and just tear through the other one like a hot knife through butter.

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  • NotBillMurray@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That is painfully untrue. Check out this video of an old Bel Air vs an 09 Malibu. Both cars get fucked up, but only one of those drivers has any chance of walking away from the accident, and it’s sure as fuck not the one in the classic.

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    • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Clearly that car isn’t old enough.

      Try this one:

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      • NotBillMurray@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Ah shit, you got me. That front stone wheel alone probably weighs as much as a modern sedan.

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Nah, newer cars are much bigger than mine, I’m pretty sure they’ll tear through me regardless.

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