Technology can take risk out of warming up car on cold days

With freezing temperature ranges and subzero breeze chills predicted Friday morning hours across the Might Town urban place; motorists may be influenced to heat up their vehicles.

Police have been caution all winter time that making a operating car unwatched is an start invites for criminals.

Just these 7 days, a lady had a car thieved outside a Merriam residence complicated with her two-year-old boy in the returning chair. The boy was discovered secure seven moments later when the robber discontinued the car.

Police said there bear been 21 vehicles thieved in Overland Recreation place this season and 14 more thieved in Shawnee. New developments in remote-start technological innovation will help motorists begin their car, secure it and move away.

Danny Zaslavsky at Nation Mountain Google confirmed the vicinity key program and how it performs. The car operates and hair while generate keeps the key in side. He said new techniques let motorists begin their engines with a mobile cellphone app and monitor it on a function if it's thieved.

"It even has a function that if you don't achieve your car within 15 moments, the car will closed off," Zaslavsky said.

The techniques are not quick and easy.

When Nancy Hammond's SUV was thieved from a gas place on Weekend, the distant begin program malfunctioned and remaining the car revealed.

"You have to secure your car first," Zaslavsky said. "Then you force twice and keep on the second efforts and the car will flicker and begin up."

He read four out of ten car customers want them.