> Outside the USA car thefts are not as common and in Domestic Japan/India/Asia a transponder is still pretty rare. My priors are that car theft inside the USA

> Outside the USA car thefts are not as common and in Domestic Japan/India/Asia a transponder is still pretty rare. My priors are that car theft inside the USA is fairly rare now, but exceedingly common in Europe. I'm constantly hearing about all kinds of sophisticated electronic attacks on vehicles particularly in the UK, that are simply not an issue in the US.