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Why are car keys so expensive to replace?

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-11-01 Cached

The article explains why modern car key replacement is so expensive, tracing the history from simple metal keys to transponder chips, key fobs, and rolling encryption in an ongoing arms race between carmakers and thieves.

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