Most car safety systems will not stop a well equipped car thief. The researchers from Switzerland took several stylish cars from several manufacturers and found that a technologically minded thief can easily break into a car with a computer system.
Well known brand vehicles were the first fashionable cars with keyless entry and start systems. Nowadays many regular medium-sized cars make use of the keyless entry and start systems. This system requires a device with a radio chip instead of a key. With this device in your pocket, the car will sense the radio waves from the chip as you get closer to the car. The car reads the data which is transmitted from the electronic tag in the device and not only opens the door, but also starts the car for you. Ladies don’t need to search through handbag, nor do you need two pairs of hands to hold onto goods, clutch a briefcase and try and open a door at the same time.
This amazing system is not just convenient, but this advanced system makes your car also more accessible to the car thief. All the thief needs are a couple of antennas which is readily available on the market. Equipped with an antenna and the requisite audacity it will be no challenge to the thief opening the car door and starting the car.
The tool used to open the door and start the car emits radio waves to control a car’s safety system. The signal is actually very weak and therefore only works when a driver is very close to the car. When a thief picks out your car, he will follow the car around for a while. The thief waits for the driver to park the car and leave it. Then he takes out the antenna and shadows the driver. This is done because he wants his device to catch the radio waves sent out by the keyless entry device. His device amplifies the signal and sends it out to the driver’s car. The car will catch the amplified signal and open the door. This can be done even if the driver with the original device is quite far from the car. Al he needs is another criminal with another relay antenna halfway between himself and the car. The sly thief who tried this out the first time had nothing to lose and his experiment paid off Maybe it was discovered just as accidentally as thieves discovered how to open bicycle locks by jamming a ball pen into the Kryptonite bicycle lock.
Car owners will have to find new ways to protect their cars and themselves. It takes a trial period to point out flaws in a new product. Thus car owners will have to wait for manufacturers to improve the systems in cars, if they want to buy cars with keyless systems. Only if the system has been used for a period and has been found fool proof will it be safe to buy a car with such a system. Looking for a new car – visit Kia Menlyn.
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