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> If your car is stolen, you report this to the police, which report it to LoJack. By which time it is already chopped up for parts or, in the case of places l

> If your car is stolen, you report this to the police, which report it to LoJack. By which time it is already chopped up for parts or, in the case of places like Phoenix, is already in Mexico. I used to have a roommate who grew up in NYC, had a somewhat dubious past and was talking about LoJack one day. He claimed it doesn’t work well enough in dense urban areas to get a precise location fix to actually impede theft. IIRC they would have enough time to disable it as long as they stayed around tall buildings. Something like they would park the car in an alley between buildings and find the LoJack before doing whatever with the car. I’ve known a few youthful car thieves over the years with some interesting stories.

xtiansimon 3y ago
> “park the car in an alley between buildings” Fun fact. Very few alleys in NYC https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortlandt_Alley https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortlandt_Alley
- UncleEntity 3y ago
  I really just remember the part about LoJack not working in urban areas so I probably just interpreted that part. Or it could have been all made up, who knows? Like this whole Kia Challenge thing, I’m sure a bunch of them are going to grow up and say they were crack auto thieves because they got six months community service for jacking their neighbor’s car with a usb cable.