Send a text message to shut down your stolen car
Worried about getting your car back after it’s been stolen?
Text car
Well, you might be able to text your car to stop the thieves from getting away with it. The system could work in conjunction with your cellphones text message capabilities and your cars computer system.
What is this for exactly? Well if your car is ever stolen for some reason, all you have to do is send a text and it’ll be relayed to your car and start to shut it down. You text your vehicle and inform it that it has been stolen. It will actually initiate a sequence of events that causes the car’s internal computers, that won’t be modified at all, to think that the car has overheated.
The car actually goes into limited power mode and you can only go about 30 kilometers an hour, and basically you are running on half the cylinders in your car. 30 seconds will give them the time, the thief or whoever, to pull over. And then after that it will shut the car down right away.
This is just an idea, for now. After that, the onboard GPS unit will text you back the location of your car, so you can go pick it up (preferably with the authorities).