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You can’t get for Cadillac for a Kia price!
This just seems frivolous to me. I would like to hear an attorney make a good faith and rational argument on the merits of the action. Are we going to make liable all manufactures of valuable items without anti-theft deterrents? My computer doesn’t have anti-theft, if it gets stolen is it Apple’s fault? My ring doesn’t have anti-theft, if it gets stolen should we sue the jeweler. This seems absurd. It seems like municipalities that cannot control crime in their cities are looking for a deep pocket to pass the costs onto. Should Kia do better, probably. Did they violate law by not having anti-theft devices on these models, by no means.
Wade D.
+1
This is a money grab. Pure and simple.
Cities should hold the criminals accountable, not the manufacturers.
Second, the private sector can resolve this easily. Insurance companies
will jack the rates up of these two models or stop insurerring them.
In short people will stop buying them.
Thank you, Wade. Frivolous police runs to the same locations week after week and nothing seems to be done in that area.
It turns out there is a cost to the public for a manufacture that makes something so cheaply that anybody can steal it. Insurance rates go up as pay-outs for stolen cars escalate and everybody’s rates go up to cover the cost. The police force is now having to devote extra manpower to stolen cars. So, no it’s not frivolous.
With the manufacture pocketing the extra money, and the consumer still paying for a what they thought was a “standard” product, it almost makes the case for congress to get involved, and pass one more bit of government regulation.
Hyundai/Kia initiated an anti-theft software update back in February to address this problem in later models:
https://owners.hyundaiusa.com/us/en/resources/technology-and-navigation/anti-theft-software-upgrade.html