Jaguar Land Rover owned by Tata Motors is re-considering the keyless technology after a series of thefts in its luxury vehicles. This stealing was carried out by new-age thieves who made the most of their opportunity according to the media reports.
This luxury car firm, which is based out from Britain, is looking forward to launch a driverless vehicle within the forthcoming decade. Incidentally, the company has requested a patent in the United States to develop a new security device, which will lock as well as unlock the doors. However, it will not be utilisable to start the vehicle.
Modern thieves have used this technology, which is similar to breaking down of services for bypassing locks. After this method, plugging in a gadget, which is capable of programming a blank keyless fob, starts the engine according to the report. The re-invention might just be a metal key, which will fit to the lock of the door. However, there are chances that it might be an electronic chip or a remote key using the application of a mobile phone.
However, there have been no indications of production of this new key. Problems with this new technology were faced last year when a Range Rover Evoque was reprogrammed in less than 10 seconds. The city of London itself had reported theft of almost 1000 luxury cars comprising BMW and Audi models. Jaguar Land Rover had given up the manufacture of metal ignition keys because of the fact that they were compromising with the legroom of the driver and getting embedded in the knees during high-speed collisions. JLR is among the largest exporters of luxury cars and leads around 85 per cent of its revenue from the exports.
