I have to ask being I’m yet to own a key less entry car, if you don’t have a key physically in the ignition lock and all you have is a starter button, how do you switch the engine off?
You press the button again… it is a start/stop button.
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I had a similar experience. I was walking through a carpark past a brand new car which was sat ticking over with no-one in sight! I found the security/car park attendant and told him, they put a call out for the owner. I was half tempted to get in it and move it to a different parking spot 
If only they made a slot in the dash where one could insert the keyless key when driving . Oh, hang on …
I also own an Audi S3 which is quite high in the stolen car stakes. Mine doesn’t have keyless and I live in a fairly law abiding area but being on the Audi S3 and Golf R forum it is apparent in certain areas of the country that the stealing of these cars is rife. I of course take every precaution and hide the keys in a cupboard that wouldn’t be too difficult to find for a car thief. The last thing I would want is to have a couple of thugs threatening me in the middle of the night for the keys. Mrbarry is right I would rather lose the car than have myself or the other half end up in hospital or worse.
On another note years ago I had a '66 Mini and the key would open a lot of other BMC cars, don’t ask me how I know.
I remember (also many many years ago), my cousin had a Hillman Imp and he needed a new rear hatch - we went to a scrap yard to find one and there were about 6 that he tried and his key opened every single one!
In reality there is no 100% sure way to avoid car theft - the best that you can hope for is that you will make it so difficult that the thieves will choose another car.
In my experience, hands free keys are the answer no body asked - putting a key in the dash is not difficult and enables you to keep other keys (t least a front door key) on the same ring. You always know where the key is.
We have more issues with my wife’s Renault that has a “card” than anything else. It really is a pain - it is either too sensitive, so you can stand at the door, pulling the handle again and again as it has not opened, until you find the key and have to press the tiny button to open the car. Or when we go out in my car and my wife walks past her car, it opens and she then has to open the door and close it again as she leaves the key in her handbag…
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I never expected this topic to trigger so many responses! I think because the car is new to me, I’m being unduly concerned and a bit annoyed by what initially felt like unnecessary new tech. In a couple of months I’ll be used to the ‘key’ and and I’ll forget about it. As others have pointed out, if someone is determined to take your car, it’s probably better if they do that without fighting you to get the key.
One thing I’ve not seen mentioned is avoidance of knee injuries caused by a bunch of keys stuck in the steering column.
Car locks and I can’t get out at all as all dead locked and she never answered her phone!
This is caused by pressing the lock button twice within 3 seconds (at least on mine). Doors can’t be opened from the inside. There’s a warning about this in the manual.
Aluminium cooking foil does work. I wrapped the spare “keyless entry fob” in it and the 30AE’s display says “key not found” when I push the start stop button even with it right up against it. I’ve just this minute checked to make sure. But if you put the key in a ferrous metal container that doesn’t not isolate it.
I have my ND keys in one of those little tin money boxes that I covered and lined with sticky aluminium tape, if I sit in my car with it on my lap with the key inside the car starts, if I open the door and just put it on the ground the car can’t see the key and it won’t start.