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Has this tech lowered car theft rates and insurance rates?




Nope.

Should mention, stealing nearly any car is extremely easily, and quite fast, too.

The reason more cars aren’t stolen is because they are registered to an owner, and the resale value of a stolen cars is on the order of a couple hundred bucks USD for a brand new vehicle. It simply isn’t worth the time.

Essentially nobody is stealing cars except for a few chop shop operations who concentrate in specific areas.




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