The updates are free for millions of vehicles that are missing a key anti-theft device.
Hyundai said updates begin Tuesday for nearly 4 million vehicles beginning with a million model year 2017-2020 Elantra, 2015-2019 Sonata and 2020-2021 Venue vehicles. The software upgrade is scheduled to be available for the remaining eligible vehicles by June.
In September the Highway Loss Data Institute, a unit of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, found that Hyundais and Kias without immobilizers had aof 2.18 per 1,000 insured vehicle years. The rest of the industry combined had a rate of 1.21. An insured vehicle year is equal to one vehicle insured for one year.
In October a police commissioner said that a car crash in Buffalo, New York that left four teenagers dead may have been. In the incident, six teenagers were in a speeding Kia that crashed, Buffalo police said. The car had been reported stolen.
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