Car Keys Along Lehi's Tech Corridor
Lehi is the center of Silicon Slopes. Adobe's campus sits off I-15 near Cabela's, Texas Instruments has a chip fab in town and is building a second, and Ancestry, Oracle, and DigiCert are among the city's employers. If you lose a key on a workday, your car is probably sitting in an office lot along the I-15 Technology Corridor, the stretch UDOT widened to six lanes each way in 2020.
Plenty of Lehi residents don't drive every day, either. 24.4% of workers here work from home, compared with 16.5% in Orem. When the car only comes out a few times a week, a missing key can go unnoticed until the morning you need it, and the spare that was supposedly in a drawer turns out to be somewhere else.
At home, those cars sit in driveways across master plans like Traverse Mountain and Holbrook Farms; 76.1% of Lehi's housing went up in 2000 or later. And nearly every recent car has a chip in the key: the Highway Loss Data Institute found immobilizers standard on 97% of 2021 vehicle series. That rules out a hardware-store copy for most cars in town. The new key has to be programmed to the car, whether it is parked at the Thanksgiving Point FrontRunner lot, the Outlets at Traverse Mountain, or home.