Kia and Hyundai agree to $200M settlement for making cars viral theft targets

To head off similar comments from the previous discussion over Baltimore's lawsuit:

> There is no nationwide count of social-media-inspired joyrides, but individual cities have reported unmistakable upticks in certain car thefts: Buffalo, New York, saw a 500 percent increase in Kia thefts from 2020 to 2022. In Philadelphia, Hyundai and Kia thefts grew 400 and 700 percent, respectively, from 2019 to 2022.

The ignition could be turned and the car started with a USB dongle. This is a pretty serious product defect. No car is perfectly theft-proof, but I think any reasonable third party would conclude no purchaser would have expected a USB dongle to work.