Automakers spent years promising that connected cars would be safer, smarter, and harder to steal. Only now is the full implication of that connectivity coming into focus: if a vehicle can be ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. According to the National Insurance Crime Bureau, 2022 saw a 7% increase in vehicular theft, bringing the total to more than 1 million. That's ...

The advanced technologies that are standard equipment in today’s cars were pure science fiction when I first started working on cars in the mid-1960s. One technology, telematics, is a double-edged ...

Q: With all the talk about Hyundai and Kia thefts, can these new cars be fitted with an old-fashioned kill switch? A: You can install a kill-switch and wire it into ...

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