Your stolen car may already know where it is. The challenge is getting that location to the right people fast enough to matter.
Modern vehicles contain GPS and telematics systems that keep broadcasting after a theft. Maria Santos and Eugene Giordani, co-founders of Autoscope, join Joe and Adam to explain how consent-based access to that built-in data is changing auto theft recovery. Relay devices can steal a luxury car from a driveway in under 60 seconds. License plate readers stop working the moment thieves swap the plates. But the GPS keeps pinging — and even burned vehicles still transmit their last known location.
The conversation covers how Autoscope works with law enforcement to bridge the jurisdictional gaps that let stolen cars disappear across state lines, why the auto theft clearance rate is so low, and what car owners can do before a thief reaches the driveway — from Faraday pouches to where you keep your key fob at night.
Maria Santos and Eugene Giordani are co-founders of Autoscope, a connected-vehicle intelligence platform that helps law enforcement recover stolen vehicles using consent-based telematics data. Contact: info@autoscope.io | autoscope.io
Topics Discussed
- Relay attacks and 60-second luxury-car thefts using $6,000 devices
- How built-in vehicle GPS enables recovery without aftermarket trackers
- Why 2017-and-newer vehicles changed the recovery game
- The burned vehicle that still pinged its last known location
- Why license plate readers fail when thieves remove plates
- Jurisdictional friction and why stolen cars disappear across state lines
- Auto theft clearance rates and the law enforcement capacity problem
- Organized theft rings running cars from Texas to Mexico
- AirTag limitations most car owners don’t know about
- Key fob placement, Faraday pouches, and driveway security
- How law enforcement can contact Autoscope for active cases