How a carmaker’s mistake created the ultimate internet challenge.

  • Pons_Aelius@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    The Kia Challenge explained:

    The Free Market US did not mandate immobilizers be installed in every vehicle as the rest of the west did more than a decade ago. (Regulations stifle markets and all that.)

    In a cost cutting measure Hyundai USA removes the immobilizers from low end US only models.

    The ease of theft goes viral.

    Millions of dollars in damage to save $50 dollars per vehicle.

    The US free market in action.