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To be fair, all 3 of those are valid complaints. #1 was true all the way till ~10 years ago when 3G became popular. #2 is still true is most 'urban' areas. Pe
by umeshunni 5y ago
To be fair, all 3 of those are valid complaints.
#1 was true all the way till ~10 years ago when 3G became popular.
#2 is still true is most 'urban' areas. People just take their phones with them when they get out of their cars.
#3 is interesting - I think some regions had tried to ban mounting phones on the dashboard, but at this point, they must have given up
- zepearl 5y agoConfirming #2: I live in Switzerland (low crime rate etc...) but I would not even dream of leaving my phone visible in the car. Btw. in the 90' I used to detach each-single-time that I parked the car the front panel of the car's radio to then carry it with me (leaving the storage box in front of the passenger seat open, to show that I didn't just put it in there) to discourage people from breaking into the car to extract the radio (front panel & main car radio were individually coded to only work together, that's at least what I believed). What a silly thing to do, hehe, but to be fair the price of a fancy radio at that time was similar to today's phones ("Pioneer" and "Sony" were high on my list - some models had quite complex display animations/colors/equalizers/etc & sound modes).
- zerocrates 5y agoThe detachable faceplate for anti-theft reasons was (is?) a very common feature for aftermarket radios/head-units/whatever in the US. Built-in ones have just increasingly moved to not being a discrete, accessible, interchangeable component, another way around. I still remember when my dad had bought an aftermarket tape-deck-only radio, a Sony I believe, well into the era of the ubiquitous CD player (he just wanted a working tape deck). Someone broke into the car at some point and stole it and I can only assume they were very disappointed after looking closer.
- dzolob 5y agoTo this day I’d be afraid to park my car out in the open with that piece of hardware attached to it.
- toyg 5y agoItaly, mid-80s, early summer. My primary school organises a day trip to a city nearby. During the trip, a classmate from a “difficult” background ends up getting slightly hurt, banging his head against a wall. When we eventually get back to our hometown, his parents don’t come to pick him up, and somehow that means everyone else has to wait on the bus. Eventually, his dad shows up, drunk and high (on heroin, we’ll found out later) with a car radio under his arm - and everybody knows he doesn’t have a car, he’s literally just stolen it…
- kccqzy 5y agoAnd when I bought an ebike, the dealer told me to always remove the battery and carry it with me when I park the bike in public spaces.
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- bserge 5y agoGPRS was a godsend as it brought the always-connected, pay-for-data usage that we all know nowadays. The precursor, HSCSD, was ridiculously expensive because you paid by the minute. If my memory is correct, there was also dial-up on mobile/GSM (well, I used something before I had a phone that supported HSCSD), which was interesting, but quite useless at the time. Also, #3 makes little sense seeing as there were already cars with built-in satnav, and you had to look down, which is worse than a phone on the windshield.