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Cars in Europe don’t honk on open/close. It’s not illegal but there are some non honk areas and because of that manufactures don’t enable it.
It is illegal to honk in Denmark unless theres a dangerous situation ahead. Honk any other a time you can be fined about 130€
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Cars in Europe don’t honk on open/close. It’s not illegal but there are some non honk areas and because of that manufactures don’t enable it.
It is illegal to honk in Denmark unless theres a dangerous situation ahead. Honk any other a time you can be fined about 130€
Last time I got car insurance (a year ago?) I believe they still asked if it had an alarm, implying they still give a discount for it. Do insurance companies think it actually matters? Or do they just get kickbacks from alarm companies?
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Right. The alarm makes them only target the easily available junk that is in plain view. With no alarm, the thief could quietly spend 30 minutes "working on" the vehicle so they could clear out your trunk, and maybe even a few parts like the radio/GPS
AFAIK, people don't really steal stock radios anymore. Or at least, it's not very common. Your trunk should also be empty of anything valuable. There's no reason to keep much back there overnight. I guess thieves could steal my tire chains and donut right now, but that hardly seems worth the trouble.
If the author had a Ring doorbell (and looked at their crime reports), or participated on NextDoor, they would know that theft from parked cars is the number one problem in most neighborhoods. An alarm is still a good deterrent for people who do not park their cars in a garage.
Do people call the police and have the police show up if something like that happens? Here people don't even turn their heads when an alarm goes off, and the police will show up, but far past the actual event.
I assume this a local cultural problem. I do not believe I have ever heard an actual car alarm go off in my life, I have only seen on television, typically in Anglo-Saxon media. So is this truly as common as the article suggests in some places?
It does seem like a piece of security theater that gets put on by the dealer to make people feel safe about making a large purchase. I don’t think they really do much for safety. In San Francisco (my home) we have a ludicrously high incidence of people joy-bashing car windows. The car alarms just make it more annoying for everyone else. A few weeks ago I saw someone stealing a car while the alarm was going off. The alarm didn’t stop them, but at least it made it easy to report them to the police.
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They will not hesitate in San Francisco to break a $300 window to steal the change out of your ashtray.
That's just a figment of local law enforcement policy and doesn't really speak to broader trends. Places like Boston and DC have car break ins but they're not rampant like in SF Edit: For those unaware SF downgraded a ton of (formerly felony I believe) property crime to low level misdemeanors with very light sentencing guidelines (termed "catch and release" by many) which results in nearly zero law enforcement action…
You don't know what you're talking about.
If the author had a Ring doorbell (and looked at their crime reports), or participated on NextDoor, they would know that theft from parked cars is the number one problem in most neighborhoods. An alarm is still a good deterrent for people who do not park their cars in a garage.
I don't get what people are stealing from parked cars? You can't remove radios anymore. What are they taking? Surely nobody's leaving a laptop or a purse in a car?
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If you have a cell phone with active cellular service then you might as well have a tracking system on your car and derive some sort of benefit, as you're already being tracked and you already don't have your privacy.
You make assumptions about my behavior. I don't bring my phone with me unless it's truly necessary.
Thus, it would be your behavior which would be considered anomalous. So yes, definitely an assumption, although not an unwarranted one.