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Teenager invents vehicular antitheft system
- vaksel 18y agoSeems way a little bit complicated, I still prefer the kill switch option. Costs you like 3 bucks for a switch from radio shack and some spare wire you have at home, and bam noone can steal it w/o knowing where the switch is.
- pmorici 18y agoSounds like a good candidate for Ycombinator Africa edition.
- lvecsey 18y agoTheres a funny story of a mac laptop owner that set the built in camera to record frames, so that when it was stolen he actually got some pictures taken of the crook flipping it open. Similarly maybe this system should be wifi based, as a small embedded computer, so that whenever it is in range you can interact with it. For SMS messaging it he uses a go-phone that might be reasonable because I don't like the idea of devoting a SIM card and a regular mobile subscription for this.
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- bprater 18y agoGod willing, one day cell carriers will be open enough to do this hack without needing a cellphone.
- bullseye 18y agoFrom the comments - "..can it shut down a lion remotely? thats seems more usefule in Kenya." Reading that made the whole story worthwhile. :)
- noonespecial 18y agoCool. He made onstar in his spare time. Nice hack indeed. As a side note, I really don't want onstar to add the ability to turn off the ignition remotely!
- newt0311 18y agoInteresting concern: What if some malicious hacker breaks the anti-theft system and starts sending it arbitrary commands? Just a thought. Still, very nice idea.