On Monday, March 11, 2019 at 4:23:55 PM UTC, Andy Burns wrote:
Mike Clarke wrote:

The main function of keyless ignition seems to be to make cars much
easier to steal.

That's keyless entry.

Keyless ignition merely makes it possible to drive your car away from
where the keys are, so you can't re-start it to drive it back and
collect those keys.

Ho yus, my wife once set off on a two hour trip without the key fob because some idiot had it in his trouser pocket. Luckily said idiot discovered said fob within a few minutes and was able to phone her and get her to come back.