If Kia had a gigantic button that said "PRESS THIS TO START CAR WITHOUT KEYS" they STILL wouldn't be responsible for any of this. It's absurd that we are blaming the automaker for thefts instead of the theives.
Thieves exist. Car makers need to be aware of that and design accordingly. By 2015 every car maker selling in the US except Kia and Hyundai was putting immobilizers in almost all of their new cars. The benefits of immobilizers were well known, with car theft rates declining dramatically in jurisdictions that mandated them.
> Your punishment for having a knife when they searched you would be very different from the thief’s. For him to have a knife was mere misbehavior, tradition, he didn’t know any better. But for you to have one was ‘terrorism.’