Gadgetory

we all know the sound we all hate the sound but believe it or not you may be hearing it a lot less these days that's because auto theft has been on a 20-year rundown and it's been way down in the US the auto theft rate per 100,000 persons has been coming down since 1993 there was a plateau in the mid 2000s then we kept our erosion going and the total number of fests has roughly half since 20 years ago in the UK vehicle theft is down from 600,000 a year in 91 to just over a hundred thousand cars stolen in 2011 a dramatic drop and overall across the g7 countries auto theft way off so what's going on here well first and foremost technology crooks aren't getting any nicer and times aren't getting any easier but it's a lot harder to get in a car and drive it off where you can dismantle it than it used to be technology makes that rather challenging now the top cars that do get stolen tend to have two things in common one they're popular models now and they've been popular models for a while cars that are out there that represent lots of existing cars on the road that need repair parts are what feeds so much theft according to the National Insurance Crime Bureau of the top five stolen cars in 2012 where the Honda Accord the Honda Civic the Ford pickups the Chevy pickups and the Toyota Camry combined with that the fact that we are driving the oldest fleet ever in the US we're in about eleven point four years right now is the average age of a private vehicle on the US roads RL pulk I don't think has ever seen it that hot partly because of the recession that creates a huge base of used cars out there for which either unscrupulous repair shops or unknowing parties are buying up stolen parts the other thing that stolen cars tend to have in common is being unlocked with the keys left in them yep believe it or not that's about forty to fifty percent of all stolen car reports out there so it pays to double check that you at least have your keys with you if not your car locked and the windows up