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A 10-Year Battery for AirTag

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673 points dmd | 6 comments | 18 Dec 24 18:17 UTC | HN request time: 0.217s | source | bottom
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Grazester ◴[19 Dec 24 19:49 UTC] No.42465052[source]▶
Who leaves 10K worth of anything in their car? I get antsy leaving my $200 laptop hidden under my seat! This person is crazy.

There is also no guarantee they person who stole the bag wouldn't dump the bag(with the hidden AirTag) and just keep the gear or that the police would help recover it even if you gave them the location(many times the don't).

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1. grujicd ◴[19 Dec 24 21:13 UTC] No.42465728[source]▶
It's not very risky to leave expensive items in the car, but in the trunk, not on the backseat! Also, never put these expensive items or really any kind of bag in the trunk after you park. Always do it before the ride. Or at least make very sure that no one is watching you.

This is a basic safety drill. And it doesn't apply to expensive things only. You don't want your window broken for a sport bag with a sweaty t-shirt used in a gym like it happened to my friend. Any kind of bag left visible in a car is a risk.

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2. wyager ◴[19 Dec 24 21:27 UTC] No.42465852[source]▶
> in the trunk, not on the backseat! Also, never put these expensive items or really any kind of bag in the trunk after you park... You don't want your window broken for a sport bag

A frustrating thing is that it's completely optional to live in a society where this is a problem. We know how to stop this from happening. There are places where you just don't have to live in fear of some low-life breaking your window, and we have the technical ability to replicate those conditions in any moderately-wealthy country, if we aren't prevented from doing so.

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3. canucker2016 ◴[19 Dec 24 22:54 UTC] No.42466580[source]▶
...except when you're still in the car, while driving in San Francisco.

Photographer had their camera bag stolen from their car while waiting to get on to an on-ramp in San Fran. see https://www.ktvu.com/news/real-estate-photographer-robbed-of...

4. 0xffff2 ◴[20 Dec 24 20:40 UTC] No.42474809[source]▶
Can you elaborate? I'm honestly at a loss as to what you're suggesting? Is it just that we should have extremely long jail sentences and/or executions for petty crimes, or is there some other option I'm missing?
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5. sib ◴[20 Dec 24 21:02 UTC] No.42474983[source]▶
I lost > $10K of photo gear from a locked car trunk on my first trip to Hawaii (Oahu).

I shot some pictures at a photo location, put the gear, in my camera backpack, into the trunk, drove 30 minutes to a completely different town, and stopped for lunch.

When I got back to the car, the stuff was gone. Thief had jimmied the driver's door and used the remote latch to open the trunk.

Surprisingly, my renter's insurance covered the loss without a hassle, except for a $500 deductible. But three days of pictures that I hadn't yet downloaded were gone forever :(

6. wyager ◴[21 Dec 24 04:04 UTC] No.42477473{3}[source]▶
Crime, as with most things, follows a power law distribution. Almost all crime is from extremely predictable repeat offenders. You could eliminate over 80% of crime just by enforcing a 3-strikes policy. https://inquisitivebird.xyz/p/when-few-do-great-harm