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This feels like a loud solution to assuage the outrage of the month. None of the articles on this are actually showing the numbers. https://www150.statcan.gc.c
by data-ottawa 3y ago
This feels like a loud solution to assuage the outrage of the month.
None of the articles on this are actually showing the numbers. https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/230727/cg-b004-eng.htm https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/230727/cg-b0...
Car thefts have increased by a significant amount outside of their normal fluctuations, but they are still much much lower than they were before 2010. To call it a crisis is hyperbole. Canada's car thefts are the approximately the same rates as the US.
Flipper zero is a casualty of poor security practices, and the insurance companies need to be going after the car manufacturers for making it so easy. I would even say if it's so easy to bypass, then buttonless start should never have even been legal.
You can ban the flipper zero, but it does not seem that difficult to get them into the country nor does it seem difficult for criminals to make their own.
- soerxpso 3y agoI wouldn't trust that data at all without associated data on reporting rates over time. There's absolutely a crisis, and it's bad enough that people have stopped bothering to report thefts to the police since they know nothing will come of it.
- data-ottawa 3y agoHow are people dealing with the situation then? Without a police report your insurance won’t pay for a new car.
- gregmac 3y agoPeople have stopped reporting car theft?? Since a police report is required for an insurance claim, your statement implies people are just accepting their car is gone and eating the loss personally. Can you provide any citations?