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- From: jeh@cmkrnl.com
- Newsgroups: rec.audio.car
- Subject: Re: Alarm for carjacking
- Message-ID: <1992Nov15.113852.872@cmkrnl.com>
- Date: 15 Nov 92 11:38:51 PST
- References: <1992Nov12.005459.24362@oracle.us.oracle.com> <1992Nov12.160905@usho72.hou281.chevron.com>
- Organization: Kernel Mode Consulting, San Diego, CA
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- In article <1992Nov12.005459.24362@oracle.us.oracle.com>, jpau@oracle.com writes:
- |> Does anyone has any suggestion for any addons to your existing
- |> alarm system to take care of the now getting popular carjacking
- |> problem?
-
- Since the carjacking problem is itself a response to the prevalence of car
- alarms, I really have to wonder what the next step up in the ECM war will be.
-
- > Passive - activates automatically if car door is opened
- > while keys in the ignition and turned to ON but
- > not necessarily requiring the engine to be running.
- > These would delay any action from 15 seconds to
- > 1 minute, then start a countdown beeping for about
- > 15 seconds, then kills the engine and soundsthe
- > siren. The beeping delay gives you time to
- > deactivate the alarm via a hidden switch. Some
- > systems also offered activation via remotes
- > such as Alpine's and anotheroffered a paging
- > system - just dial the local paging system
- > and dial in the alarm's pager number and the
- > alarm is triggered.
-
- You know, rather than simply kill the engine, I think it would be better to
- cripple it. A thief who steals a car only to have the alarm sound and the
- ignition die soon afterward will connect the two and may go looking for the
- alarm and its ignition kill relay. A thief who steals a car but finds that it
- stutters and coughs above 10 mph or so might simply assume that there's
- something wrong with the car, and abandon it. This also gives the car a better
- chance of being found intact than if the engine simply dies in the middle of
- traffic.
-
- But again, this relies on the thief not knowing about the new type of alarm.
- As soon as such alarms hit the street, thieves would be wise to them.
-
- --- Jamie Hanrahan, Kernel Mode Consulting, San Diego CA
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