Land Rover wants to foil the high-tech tricks used by car thieves (GB 2332548). These days, many car door locks rely on keys that transmit and receive coded signals. But thieves can steal these codes by using an electronic device to interrogate the keys of unsuspecting passers-by.
Land Rover hopes to foil them by letting the car’s owner choose a unique position from which he or she always unlocks the car. It does this by putting antennas in the wing mirrors and brake lights that let the car triangulate the position of the key that is trying to unlock the car. Only the rightful owner…
