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People should be doing this to their cars as well.
by villgax 5y ago
People should be doing this to their cars as well.
- paxys 5y agoCars already have enough space and power for a real GPS tracker. I can't think of any new cars today that come without one.
- bosswipe 5y agoWhat they don't have is the necessary internet connection unless you're willing to pay a cell phone bill just for that purpose.
- jacobsenscott 5y agoI bought a new 2021 Honda CRV less than six months ago. As far as I know it doesn't have one.
- jeffbee 5y agoIf your Honda is a "Touring" or "Elite" trim, it might. Install the HondaLink app on your phone and find out!
- sharken 5y agoThieves who steal high-value vehicles have methods to prevent these things from happening. But for the ordinary car theft, it does sound like a nice idea. Though you'd have to buy into the Apple ecosystem and the anti-follow feature could be triggered when you don't want it to.
- moepstar 5y agoYou can solve at least 1 of 2 parts of the stalking protection - the loudspeaker. You just need to pry open the case and remove the magnet from the coil and snap it all back together...
- SilverRed 5y agoYou can also just sandwich it in anything and the sound is muffled 99%. The outer case is the speaker diaphragm and it becomes almost silent under the slightest pressure.
- websap 5y agoProbably gonna hide 2 or 3 in my car. Given how bad things are these days with theft.
- fortuna86 5y agoIf the guys that are knowingly part of the scooter/ebike theft game threatened to kill this guy, you probably don't want to meet the automobile equivalent.
- pjerem 5y agoIf you are insured enough, you probably also don’t want to find your car again. Better be reimbursed by your insurer than getting your car back in chunks.
- Markoff 5y agoI mean you can get insurance and take at least tires and other parts of your stolen former car :-) what are the thieves going to do, call police on you stealing from stolen car?
- austinl 5y agoI have an AirTag hidden in my car, and it makes me feel a bit better — but it's mostly just to help me remember where I've parked. My partner's car was stolen out of the parking garage on Grove St. in Hayes Valley (San Francisco). It was recovered three days later in the garage on 5th and Mission. Probably not the same person who had stolen it, but someone had essentially moved in. When we picked up the car at the impound lot, it was full of stuff — dozens of documents that personally identified who was living in the car. There was even a journal with lists of cars and locations for future theft! The garage also had security camera footage of the theft, and the 5th/Mission garage of the person who dropped it off. SFPD was uninterested. I hung on to photos of everything though. It was just kind of mind-blowing to me at the time that despite very clear evidence that could likely lead to arrests, there was a lack of willingness to do anything about it. Maybe it would be different in another city, but I'm not so sure. As much as I'd like to think that some folks on the police force are there to build cases and actively catch criminals, I don't think that happens too often outside of TV shows. Of course, it’s also likely a single car theft is too small potatoes for that kind of effort.
- jeffbee 5y agoThe SFPD could not possibly care less about thefts. When the central freeway still crossed market at octavia there was a big open-air chop shop where guys dismantled stolen bikes. Every hour all day long a guy in a white van would come and exchange whole bikes for stripped parts and cash. The cops used to sit right there in the It's Tops coffee shop, whiling away their shift and just watching it all go down. People blame this stuff on the new district attorney but I've never seen SFPD lift a finger against crime, in 25 years of living here.