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　　Car Thieves Could Be Stopped Remotely

　　Speeding 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 onee the thief switches the engine____，he will not be able to start it again.

　　For now，such devices____only 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____be available to ordinary cars in the UK____two months.

　　The idea goes like this.A control box fitted to the ear incorporates____miniature cellphone，a microprocessor and.memory,and a GPS satellite positioning receiver.____the car is stolen，a coded cellphone signal

　　will tell the unit to block the vehicle，s engine management system and prevent the engine____restarted.

　　There are even Dlans for immobilizers____shut down vehicles on the move，though there are fears over the safety implications of such a system.

　　In the UK。an array of technical fixes is already makin9____harder for car thieves.The pattern of vehicles crime has ehanged，says Martyn Randall of Thatcham.a security research organization based in Berkshire that is funded in part____the motor insurance industry.

　　He says it would only take him a few minutes to____a novice how to steal a car，using a bare minimum of tools。But only if the cal一is more than lo years old.

　　Modem cars are a far tougher proposation，as their engine management，computer will not____them to start unless thev receive a unique ID code beamed out by the ignition key. In the UK，technologies like this____achieve a 3 1 per cent drop in vehiclerelated crime since l997.

　　But deteIrained criminals ore still managing to find other ways to steal cars.Often by getting hold of the owners keys in a burglary.In 2000，12 per cent of vehicles stolen in the UK were taken using the ownerkeys double the provions years figure.

　　Remotecontrolled immobilizatioll system would a major new obstacle in the criminals way by making such thehs pointless.A group that includes Thatcham，the police，insurance companies and security technology firms have dove!oped standards for a systern that could go on the market sooner than the____expects.

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