Hacker News Reader

Comment by jimmy1 | Hacker News Reader

Yeah, I don't understand this. After you went through all the work of disabling the SOS, you can just take the car then, unless breaking the window was the way they initially got inside, and maybe they were thinking that the person would blindly repair the broken window to increase the value of the car on the black market? I don't know.

View on HN

When they broke the window SOS was triggered. They knew this and that Police were en route.

When they cut the wire in the pillar, they didn't disable SOS, they disabled the triggering mechanism. The idea being that they would return and break the window again only SOS wouldn't be triggered because that wire was cut.

Because the police arrived 5 minutes after they disabled the SOS button.

The next night, there would be no SOS notification when they broke the window again. Or maybe they'd only have to tear away a plastic bag, if the owner hadn't gotten the window replaced.

Or maybe they were hoping to find a valet key in the car, making their job even easier, either that night, or the next night.

I don't know why he didn't talk to the police and tell them what he suspects and see if they would set up an ambush for the car thieves that night. Put the car back in place and wait for them to show up

The thieves didn’t have to come back the first night. Could have done it weeks later.

Yeah but would you drive around in your brand new car for weeks with a big SOS error light in the dashboard? Knowing it's covered by insurance and/or warranty, too.

The theft relies on the few people who would actually ignore the error light, I mean theft shouldn't be so easy...

Wouldn't a jammer do the thing?

Reply on news.ycombinator.com