From: suzyw0ng@outlook.com   
      
   Michael Tolhurst wrote:   
   > Hello to everyone from thirty years in the future. A few things you all   
   might find interesting.   
   >   
   > 1) South Korean GDP has grown by over 4.5 times since 1993! This is really   
   good for them and a testament to how freedom and liberty wins out over   
   commnunism.   
   > 2) Part of this growth has been driven by impressive world leading firms,   
   including Hyundai and Kia which are now a massive part of the US auto market   
   and are a strong competitor to Japanese firms like Honda. You might have heard   
   of them but they were    
   just starting to import to the US in the late 1980s/early 1990s.   
   > 3) Recently these two companies have caused us all a lot of headaches by   
   failing to incorporate many of the new and stellar antitheft devices most   
   modern cars have. For example, most cars have a little computer chip in the   
   key (or no key at all!) that    
   prevents the car being started without detecting that chip.   
   > 4) Because Kia and Hyundai have not incorporated this technology there has   
   now been a popular online video on a Chinese video sharing service called Tik   
   Tok that is used by American teens which shows bored teenagers how to quickly   
   and easily steal    
   these cars. (That probably doesn't makea  lot of sense in 1993 but wait til   
   about 2014 or so and it will)   
   > 5) Having nearly had my Hyundai stolen (only spared because the young   
   perpetrator could not drive a manual transmission - by the way those are   
   totally disappearing in 2023) I have recently gone out and bought a club after   
   seeking the advice from the    
   ancient group chats from the 1990s as to their effectiveness.   
   >   
   > Hopefully our present day thieves have forgotten to carry hacksaws and   
   liquid nitrogen!   
   >   
      
   Recent case - an old age pensioner had a car he bought in 1979 and   
   lovingly maintained. Thieves used a hacksaw to cut off the Club device.   
   It will probably be stripped to restore another car of same model.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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