Hyundai and Kia Have a Car Theft Solution
Summary
If you stay off social media, you may have missed a handful of weird dance crazes, memes, and cultural touchstones that won’t affect your daily life in the slightest. As you’d expect from a social media trend, the Kia and Hyundai thefts have spiked across the nation, leading State Farm Insurance to block new customers in Georgia, Louisiana, Oregon, Washington and Pennsylvania. The software upgrade, to be performed by dealers, will now make these applicable Kia and Hyundai models trigger the alarm and what the company calls an "ignition kill" system when you use the keyfob to lock your doors. Hyundai says the installation work will take less than one hour, and each vehicle will get a window decal to alert potential thieves that enhanced anti-theft technology is now onboard. For the models that this update won’t affect, Hyundai notes its working on a program to reimburse those customers for steering wheel locks.