Well if your car had a seat belt defect and people were dying you know they absolutely would recall the car and pay for the defect.

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.