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Car Thieves could Be Stopped Remotely:燬peeding off in a stolen car, the thief thinks he has got a great catch. But he is in a nasty surprise. The car is fitted with a remote immobilizer and a radio signal from a control center miles away will ensure that once the thief switches the engine1off, he will not be able to start it again.牋For now, such devices?燼reonly available for fleets of trucks and specialist vehicles used on construction sites. But remote immobilization technology could soon start to trickle down to ordinary cars, and?should燽e available to ordinary cars in the UK?intwo months.牋The idea goes like this. A control box fitted to the carincorporates5aminiature cellphone, a microprocessor and memory, and a GPS satellite positioning receiver.?If爐he car is stolen, a coded cellphone signal will tell the unit to block the vehicle抯 engine management system and prevent the engine7beingrestarted.牋There are even plans for immobilizers?that爏hut down vehicles on the move, though there are fears over the safety implications of such a system.營n the UK. an array of technical fixes is already making?lifeharder for car thieves. 揟he pattern of vehicles crime has changed,?says Martyn Randall of Thatcham, a security research organization based in Berkshire that is funded in part?0燽ythe motor insurance industry.牋燞e says it would only take him a few minutes to?1teacha novice how to steal a car, using a bare minimum of tools. But only if the car is more than 10 years old.牋燤odern cars are a far tougher proposition, as their engine management computer will not?2allowthem to start unless they receive a unique ID code beamed out by the ignition key. In the UK, technologies like this13have helpedachieve a 31 per cent drop in vehicle-related crime since 1997.牋But determined criminals are still managing to find other ways to steal cars. Often by getting hold of the owner抯 keys in a burglary. In 2000, 12 per cent of vehicles stolen in the UK were taken using t