A surprisingly simple way to foil car thieves
1. It&#x27;s re-inventing a kill switch.<p>2. It adds tons of uselees innovation to a kill switch.<p>3. If your car is antique&#x2F;valuable&#x2F;interesting, the people stealing it know the starting diagram&#x2F;circuit and can easily rip it out&#x2F;bypass it.<p>4. IF your car is antique&#x2F;valuable&#x2F;interesting you wouldn&#x27;t add this as it can depreciate the car value&#x2F;make it more ugly. You&#x27;re not installing this in a brand new BMW M6, or a new Honda Civic, or a E24&#x2F;1980&#x27;s BMW M6 or a 1990&#x27;s Honda EK Civic.<p>Solutionism at it&#x27;s worse. Ignores the whole idea of what a car is. Ignores the innovation in Transponder tech that has been the standard for a while - only Kita&#x2F;Hyundai in the USA has been avoiding it because if added BOM.<p>Outside the USA car thefts are not as common and in Domestic Japan&#x2F;India&#x2F;Asia a transponder is still <i>pretty</i> rare.<p>But back to the article - seeing this was sponsored by &quot;University of Michigan- &quot; - WTH is going on there? That is Ford&#x2F;GM.<p>Ford has had PATS technology for the longest time - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;SecuriLock" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;SecuriLock</a><p>GM has PK, same idea.<p>&quot;Battery Sleuth bypasses both the wireless communication that key fobs depend on and the standardized onboard communication network that’s used in today’s vehicles. Instead, it authenticates drivers by measuring voltage fluctuations in a vehicle’s electrical system. &quot;<p>Worthless, so it knows the cars resting voltage usage (easy enough) and if theres a drain, it means something is connected and that it can <i>lock</i> it up, but the same as a killswitch, it can be removed or bypassed.<p>&quot;Battery Sleuth also has defenses to guard against hacking or physical attacks on the device itself, including a siren that sounds if illegitimate activity is detected and a resistor that shuts down the vehicle’s electrical system if an unauthorized power source is connected to the vehicle. &quot;<p>Very easy to pop hood, pull siren out&#x2F;disconnect. and lol &quot;resistor&quot; means anything&#x2F;nothing.