Why do new cars not have built in trackers ?

I have a tracker because I have to have a tracker. Frankly I would rather not have one as if it's stolen I will take the insurance money, don't really want it back thrashed and battered.
 
[TW]Fox said:
It's standard if you have connected drive.
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Mercedes have the same. I can set up a geofence where the car is allowed to travel via the app and owners website. As soon as it leaves that area it will not start. I can also have the car immobilised immediately by Mercedes Connect, should the need ever arise.
 
Yeah the full Mercedes Me / Connect service is pretty good - I had quite an extensive play about with it a while back. I don't find the basic service (i.e. non subscription) all that useful though.

Is the BMW connected drive also subscription based?
 
Good to know. I think that's pretty much the same with Mercedes then. If you select the option with the car, you get the full service free for some amount of time (possibly also 3 years?) and then it goes onto a subscription. Not sure how much it is annually though - can't remember.

I like that these sort of things are appearing in cars more readily now and things seem quite well integrated. They appeal to my inner techy side :p
 
Hater said:
These systems are going to be awesome in 5 years time when components start to fail.
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Good point. I better not own a car in case something fails in 5 years time.

Actually, what components do you think are going to absolutely, definitely, 100% 'start to fail' in 5 years time? I'm intrigued.
 
Six6siX said:
Good point. I better not own a car in case something fails in 5 years time.

Actually, what components do you think are going to absolutely, definitely, 100% 'start to fail' in 5 years time? I'm intrigued.
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Shouldn't be an any issues on most modern cars, unless it's something like a Dacia Ruster Duster lol
 
I suppose I have two issues. Firstly, theft of new vehicles isn't all that common. Whilst certain steal to order cars would benefit from it, I'm not sure how useful it'd be to have as standard on all vehicles. Secondly, regarding kill switches, the security on car systems isn't all that great. Having it standard does open the attack vector of a large scale attack which could be a big deal.

Whilst none of those issues are deal breakers in themselves, I'm dubious about whether this is a huge problem to solve.
 
In certain areas there is quite an epidemic of people stealing "normal" cars and also stealing parts off them. Vauxhall parts in Luton seems to be a popular one.

There are a lot more normal/boring cars than exotic and bespoke stuff. The parts are easier to sell on.
 
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