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> If you live in the rest of the United States, which is spread out and some quite rural, a car alarm can quickly notify you someone is messing with your car.
by u801e 6y ago
> If you live in the rest of the United States, which is spread out and some quite rural, a car alarm can quickly notify you someone is messing with your car.
That really depends if you're close enough to the car, or in a building that makes it easy to hear noises coming from a parking lot. If I go to a mall or a big box store, I'm not going to hear my car alarm going off and other people are going to largely ignore it (since they've experienced so many false alarms in the past).
Car alarm systems should be silent and sent an alert to your phone so that you know someone is doing something to your vehicle and can check on it in a timely fashion.
- mc32 6y agoIsn’t it implied that the noise not only get the attention of the owner if nearby, but also passers by which in theory might deter the criminal?
- u801e 6y agoIn my experience, passers by don't care. I've heard many car alarms continuously going off and everyone else just going about their business.
- Mediterraneo10 6y agoPassersby won’t deter the criminal. In places like the USA or Latin America where criminals are believed to possess guns, passersby wouldn’t want to risk getting shot for the sake of some stranger’s vehicle. Even in Europe, if passersby in the big cities saw e.g. a bike thief taking an angle grinder to a bike lock, they are unlikely to intervene. It would just be asking for trouble.
- mc32 6y agoRight, that’s why I mention that that is the theory. In practice it is not a great deterrent, but it will deter some none the less because it brings attention to something happening.
- tsdlts 6y agoYou can silence alerts, your phone could be dead. The point of the alarm is to alarm you at the exact moment something is happening.
- svachalek 6y agoTimes in my life that I have seen someone racing to their car while the alarm is going off to chase off the supposed thieves: 000000
- vangelis 6y ago99% of car alarms from my experience are either people backing into cars, false alarms, or in my case, my truck being a POS because I had a key but not a key fob.
- lotsofpulp 6y agoIt’s 100% in my experience. I don’t think anyone I know would hear a car alarm and think someone is stealing a car. They would ignore it if it isn’t their alarm, cussing out the owner of the car for causing a disturbance, or cuss themselves out for accidentally hitting the button on the remote.
- ryanmercer 6y agoThat might be in the city, but here in a rural setting you and your neighbors are most likely to go "something is wrong" and start looking outside, if not going outside to investigate. It's quiet enough that hearing 2 cars drive down the road in an hour is out of the ordinary.