I'd be willing to agree that certain security issues might not constitute a manufacturing or design defect. If a thought-to-be-secure encryption was cracked tomorrow, that doesn't make products using it defective at the time of manufacture.
If the situation doesn't rise to that level of severity, then it follows that a patch isn't necessary.
If GM were to offer lock cylinder replacements because their original cylinders were so flawed as to warrant them, then yes the cylinder replacements should be free. The sold product was not as described.
If the original cylinders aren't so flawed as to warrant a replacement, then no cylinder replacement would be offered.
Are GM cylinder replacements being offered? If not, then your analogy isn't analogous.
1. This is only in the UK, they are not doing the same in the US
2. Recalls are the responsibility of the manufacturer. Security lapses, even if "up to standards" at the time are not a legitimate exemption (imo)
What's "unrealistic and childish" is expecting free labour.
Asking customers to pay for the actually-secure retrofit is certainly a choice.
I hope the small amount of money recovered was worth it, Hyundai/Kia just disappeared from my consideration for any future vehicle.
No.
Other manufacturers treat defects with recalls after analyzing the fiscal prospect of doing so, and determining whether or not state/regional laws require them to do it.
Here's one of the "not that wrong" scenes from Fight Club to better explain[0].
They will also be charging elevated dealership prices for thag labor.
It's not free labor anymore than the car was free. It's a fix of product that was defective off of the line. The necessity of the fix being evidence of the defect.
Car buyers are not automotive cybersecurity engineers, and they can never be expected to be. Caveat Emptor is a hilarious remark for this situation.
The defect that allows the car to be stolen in seconds is absolutely a serious problem. I hope Hyundai changes course and decides to provide it for free. We have already seen reports of the trend where people were stealing Hyundai/Kia vehicles and going on joy rides driving extremely dangerously. This has lead to deaths in several instances. So they have a flaw that has lead to people dying. IANAL but I would say leaving this flaw unpatched may even leave them liable if anyone else were to be hurt. As a recent example of something similar is the Sig Sauer P320. They are in the middle of fighting some lawsuits over their faulty product. So it would not be a far stretch if Hyundai/Kia were held responsible for a know flaw in their product.
Anyways it is just my opinion that they should just eat the cost to provide this for free as a show of standing behind their product. Just seems like such bad PR to now make people pay.
If you're done nitpicking, you're welcome to explain your number better. You forgot to say how to apply "4.5%". I'm sure an exponential fit has issues, but a linear fit would be much worse, and anything fancy needs more data points.
Claiming it is a "security design flaw" is absurd paranoia, the same paranoia that causes manufacturers to destroy the aftermarket and fight right-to-repair in their quest for "security".
You don't expect Microsoft or Adobe to issue fixes any time someone finds a remote exploit that let's attackers gain control of you system though security issue in their software? I 100% expect this of my software vendors even for this purchase in the past. The expectations for software and hardware are certainly very different, but even for hardware we have laws that force companies to fix their hardware in some situations.
They aren't actually. Which is why theives just smash your windows. In either case the alarm is going to go off so there's no advantage to them learning a complex attack on your lock cylinder when a piece of concrete will do.
Further there often were additional ignition interlock mechanisms that required the correct key code or a key with the correct additional hardware to be present for the starter cylinder to actually engage your starter.
> didn't know Hyundai owners were so entitled.
It's called a defect. It should be a recall. We have laws that cover this. They're pretty explicit. I didn't know Hyundai CORPORATION was so entitled as to think they were not subject to them.
I'm not sure this would fit the definition of a product safety defect.
Look up LockPickingLawyer on YouTube. Less than a minute with the right tool.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iWWWyG5ZwG8
The lockpicking lawyer’s skillset is not what’s required for that task. 30 seconds would be an eternity for a typical thief to just be able to open a car door. Most of these thieves take maybe 15 seconds from approach to escape. Stealing a whole car is a little bit different but nobody is going to sit there with their adrenaline pumping, wearing gloves, in the middle of the night trying to pick a car door lock that won’t even disable the alarm.
Edit: didn't know Hyundai owners were so entitled.