You'd think that removing the keys from the design of a car would make it much harder to steal it, but that's not the case ...

Immobilizers are supposed to kill a vehicle's engine to prevent it from being stolen. However, a trio of researchers recently released a study that reveals the Megamos immobilizer system used by more ...

Colorado has some of the highest rates of car thefts in the country, and there are a particular few models that are the most ...

Toyota has earned a reputation as one of the industry's most dependable brands over the decades. Sure, there's the occasional ...

Wayne Cunningham reviews cars and writes about automotive technology for CNET's Roadshow. Prior to the automotive beat, he covered spyware, Web building technologies, and computer hardware. He began ...

The humble car alarm has been around almost as long as the car itself, first being developed by an unknown prisoner in Denver, circa 1913. To the security-conscious motorist, they make a lot of sense.

The project uses an ID-12 RFID chip and a PIC12F629 microcontroller to create a car immobilizer which can cut the ignition with relay and turn ON only by reading the correct RFID tag. The design puts ...

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