{"id":5190,"date":"2012-08-31T20:16:46","date_gmt":"2012-09-01T03:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=5190"},"modified":"2012-08-31T13:26:52","modified_gmt":"2012-08-31T20:26:52","slug":"do-car-alarms-deter-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/31\/do-car-alarms-deter-theft\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Car Alarms Deter Theft?"},"content":{"rendered":"

From an article in Via, the Magazine of the American Automobile Association (AAA).<\/p>\n

Short form: No, traditional blaring car alarms do not work. They are just a PITA for you and piss off your neighbors.<\/p>\n

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Research suggests that an audible alarm is less effective than car recovery devices, such as OnStar, and immobilizers when protecting your vehicle against robbery.<\/h2>\n
By \u00a0Jason Turbow<\/a> \u00a0| \u00a0November\/December 2011<\/a><\/div>\n
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The quick answer: no. After surveying insurance claims for 73 million vehicles in 1997, the nonprofit \u00a0Highway Loss Data Institute<\/a> \u00a0found \u201cno overall reduction in theft losses\u201d for cars with traditional audible alarms. That\u2019s because blaring alarms rarely indicate theft. So frequent are false alarms that people are conditioned to ignore them.<\/div>\n
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Many cars come with an immobilizer, a device that prevents the engine from starting unless it detects a computer chip in your key fob. It isn\u2019t foolproof and it won\u2019t get you a discount, but it\u2019s harder to crack than a standard alarm\u2013and it won\u2019t wake the neighbors every time a garbage truck rumbles past.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From an article in Via, the Magazine of the American Automobile Association (AAA). Short form: No, traditional blaring car alarms do not work. They are just a PITA for you and piss off your neighbors. (via) Research suggests that an audible alarm is less effective than car recovery devices, such as OnStar, and immobilizers when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}