New York’s automotive equivalent to Bermuda’s airplane and boat mystery…. The Empire State Building, one of the seven wonders of the modern world has people wondering about something else besides the engineering marvel. About ten to fifteen car’s computers have been seemingly jammed near the Empire State building in New York every day, revealed Isaac Leviev. (Issac is the manager of Citywide Towing, the AAA’s exclusive roadside assistance provider in this area). The radio, headlights and horn work but the cars will only crank over without starting.

Triple A tow truck drivers are all very aware of this phenomenon. Bill that works for Citywide Automotive Towing, says that once he pulls the cars several blocks away the cars will then start right up. Scanning for codes with an automotive scan tool comes up empty. There is a theory that aftermarket alarm systems that are affected by strong signals in this area may be the cause in some cases.

This is most likely cause, since the numbers would probably be much higher in this dense traffic area if the problem was due to an OE (original Equipment) system being vulnerable to interference related to any of the transmission signals from the broadcast antennas on the top of the 102-story building.