Why Obnoxiously Loud Car Alarms Aren't As Common Today- Cheddar Explains

[@keithjrisk]

True Story: I worked at a place where someone had a car alarm that went off so much, a Mockingbird had learned to imitate the sound. He did a pretty good job too. It was frickin' amazing.

[@mormonboy25]

There are some mocking birds that live in a couple different trees in my neighborhood and every once in a while they will sing the classic car alarm sound

[@mormonboy25]

Now that I think about it I don’t think I’ve ever heard a car alarm go off since I moved into this place three years ago so must be a pretty old mocking bird

[@Anthonybrother]

@@mormonboy25 Lol

[@errhka]

Most city birds do this if you listen closely in the morning

[@chico305SIGMA]

I'm hearing the mockingbirds as I type. Lol

[@razmazerz]

1:03 "There is no Doors or lock, Anybody could just jump in and drive away" . Yeah except you have to start those machine for about 5 minutes using handcrank before you could drive it for like 10 mph with some loud ass engine sound in the middle of the town where cars are rare, and with a possibility that anyone could easily catch you by riding a horse.

[@mattymag2394]

There were electric carriages too. And depending on where you live you could have had massive noise pollution from some of those massive 2 stroke diesels that were used as power sources.

[@garyzhang6662]

or run or get on an electric scooter

[@vincentmuyo]

I mean, aside from Dan Backslide...

[@caldoreo]

😂😂😂

[@lorenipsum93]

lol

[@GermanPerfectionist]

My Dad used to have a 1999 Mercedes E-Class with a factory alarm system. It had sensors on the inside of the B-pillars, and if they detected movement in the interior while the car was locked and stationary, the alarm would go off. One day we were at a petrol station, I was waiting in the back seat as my father went in to pay, and without thinking about it he locked the car on his way. I noticed that, and since I knew about the alarm system I tried to stay as still as possible in order to not set it off, I barely dared to breathe... Then all of a sudden, I had to sneeze and just couldn't hold it in, causing the alarm to go off and resulting in quite a chaos at the gas station 😂

[@caseys2698]

That’s hilarious 😆

[@itsafinch]

Lmao, you were effectively its prisoner 😂😂

[@Iquey]

Likees. So many reasons to not own a Mercedes 😂

[@mohammedmuneeb6888]

Well you could just unlock it from your door. It would hardly take a second..

[@megaangelic]

@@mohammedmuneeb6888 This is how virtually all factory fitted alarms work since the 90s. The rubbish the video said about trying the door from the inside is false. It's ultrasonic sensors. Although yes opening the door will trigger it, most cars have deadlocks preventing them being opened with the key anyway. The point here is the kid could not have unlocked the doors to prevent setting off the alarm, only the remote control would stop the alarm, if the kid unlocked the car manually, that would have triggered it as well. Other wise someone opening the door with a Jimmy would also disable the alarm and defeat the purpose.

[@xtieburn]

As many other comments are saying, I _wish_ I rarely heard car alarms. I dont exactly live in the middle of a city and I still hear them go off constantly. One of them quite noticeably goes off whenever it gets really windy. Maybe they had a purpose when they were rare, but now they are just a constant nuisance. Nobody responds to them, sometimes even the damn owner takes twenty minutes to go out there. Frankly speaking, every time the thing goes off I hope thats the time it really is a thief and theyll end up pushing it off a cliff.

[@Anthonybrother]

😅

[@ekulgar]

Huh that's weird here i haven't heard a car alarm in like 5 years

[@moefag]

Solution: hire a thief to take that car away…

[@therealnoofle5330]

@@AlexiasPlaylist Pretty sure he meant "he wishes a car thief WOULD steal the car in order to push the car off a cliff to put an end to the incessant alarm"

[@Taladar2003]

I agree, and not just car alarms, building alarms too. We should just get rid of all alarm sirens other than the ones for really dangerous situations (e.g. the "flood gates are opening" down river from dams).

[@thejonsisback]

person drives fast in his sports car and hear his loud engines neighbor's car: *WHOOP WHOOP, WHOOP* and goes on for another 1 minute really this happens almost everyday

[@thejonsisback]

this is true, happens always at night

[@workonitm8]

Whatever happened to laws that are against loud exhaust ? Should the whole neighborhood be awakened at 3:30 AM by a thug that thinks his excessively loud exhaust stokes his "macho" image ??? I'll bet that those same vehicles are NOT passing the emissions test because everything has been removed.

[@Riseup425]

Norman so only “thugs” have loud exhaust systems ? 💀

[@c4onmylip]

@@workonitm8 is the type of guy that thinks you can only like loud or fast cars if you're a thug or someone trying to be macho. Like fuck those dudes and their hobby huh?

[@greentjmtl]

@@c4onmylip Found the guy with fart cans.

[@AnonymousFreakYT]

8:18 - you say "carjackings dropped..." when the statistic is about "car theft" - they are two different crimes. "Car theft" refers to stealing a car that is parked with nobody in it. "Carjacking" refers to the act of stealing a car while someone is inside - usually stopped at a stop light or in a parking lot, thus getting the thief the keys at the same time. Car*JACKING* hasn't dropped nearly as much - because it's still a perfectly successful method of stealing a car; since you have the keys at that point. It's car *theft* that dropped.

[@johnjacob688]

"since you have the keys at that point." Not in the majority of new cars now with keyless systems. You'll be able to drive away, yes. But the key will most likely be in someones pocket or purse. My key doesn't leave my pocket until I get home and take off my clothes.

[@randalalansmith9883]

"I'm too young to remember when that term was in the headlines" is a common aspect of clickbait listickle videos.

[@PeugeotRocket]

@@johnjacob688 Yup. As soon as they turn the car off, they won't be able to start it again. If the thief is smart they will hear the car beeping at them that the key is outside the vehicle or notice the dash warning message. Seeing a push button start should also be an indicator for newer systems that don't require the key to be inserted to function. One would think that jackers are already becoming aware of this and starting to demand the key from the driver. That said, adrenaline probably runs high when jacking a car so I bet it's easy to forget the key. My Lexus has a smart key and if I get out of the car while it is running with the key on my person, the car beeps at me quite audibly three times in a row.

[@johnruschulte2593]

That’s one reason why I drive a manual transmission. I actually witnessed a carjacking foiled by this high tech solution in my neighborhood. If the hadn’t pistol whipped the driver it would have actually been pure comedy.

[@dustyjackson7584]

Came here to say this. Carjackings are a completely different (and violent) crime. It's the difference between getting burgled, and getting robbed. One ends in no more than an insurance case number... the other can end in the morgue.

[@iMadrid11]

GPS tracking & remote disabling has pretty much rendered car alarms obsolete.

[@lorenipsum93]

I just realized why my car doesn't have an alarm. It's because I have a chipped key.

[@jjc5475]

yeah well. the morrocan mafia here in holland loves to steal expensive new audi's and BMW's... to use escape car..

[@dumdum7786]

@@lorenipsum93 My car has no alarm, no immobilizer, hell it dosent even have electronic door locks lmao

[@largesoda1729]

@@dumdum7786 I have an alarm, but no car

[@TKUA11]

Yeah except people can still steal your cellphone or iPad from your car. And a ton of thefts happen when people forget to lock their car

[@mendonesiac]

I remember a dude used to ride his Harley by my house every damn afternoon, and whenever he would hear the cautionary alarm chirps, he'd give it some throttle setting off multiple alarms for several minutes. A truer asshole there never was.

[@ORIGINALCRESTED]

Ye. Trash truc can't help it

[@jonesy2892]

To be fair, everyone is an asshole in that scenario

[@brightshadow9480]

You know what should be Federally mandated in all cars? Dash cams.

[@dbclass4075]

@A real bisexual petrol-head Ask anyone who worked in retail, and they have a lot of stories to tell.

[@killslay]

People don't want the government watching them curb crawl for nasty hookers

[@MaxMustermann-bm7qt]

You do realize that crash or speeding data could be easily read from the EMU? Hell even the GPS knows your speed. I don’t see advantages in video evidence as opposed to already equipped sensors apart from a few exceptions. All sketchy stuff, i.e. damage to your car while standing is handled by the insurance anyways. Maybe there are cheaper insurance models, for people using dash cams. That way, its a bonus for you, without the involvement of the state. Don’t forget a camera also captures your mistakes. I consider myself a good driver, i still make some mistakes, thats normal.

[@alveolate]

@@MaxMustermann-bm7qt in my country, it is common for drivers to install a storage unit to record the last 15-30mins of footage from reverse cameras, and add their own front-facing cameras - this guarantees a claim with insurance and avoids criminal liability if any pedestrian tries to fleece. dash-cams would definitely not be added voluntarily; but if parents are loaning their car to their kid, maybe they would. there are perfectly self-interest reasons to install these things, and the stored footage can be set to delete after x hours/days if user does not save it. you guys are talking like typical low-info muricans with a random libertarian streak for no goddamn reason. also, if the govt mandates it, then they should foot the bill. i'd be fine with that.

[@maxdamage8418]

@A real bisexual petrol-head Dash cams are private/personal Federal cams are spying on you. Big difference.

[@ktsp2538]

Bro I heard one yesterday

[@carlosandresjurado6638]

One today here

[@insatsuki_no_koshou]

Smash it. They deserve it.

[@robertwisher3219]

There's this one parking spot at my apartment complex that always makes car alarms go off in the middle of the night, it's so weird, different cars can be there but no matter what car is their the alarm goes off in that one parking spot, it's crazy

[@SynchroSk8]

My neighbor’s truck went off while I was watching this.

[@doritolegend9664]

Heck, even now.

[@robertharker]

A sign placed on a car with an alarm that went off too often: "Dear thief, please steel this car alarm. Take the radio as our thank you gift. The neighbors"

[@IsmailEveryday]

Basically, car alarms were redesigned overtime to avoid getting triggered unless a locked car's windows were broken in an attempt to steal it, Continue only if you're really interested in devoting 11 minutes to the irrevelant history of car alarms, better ways exist to spend your time. (Even during lockdown 🙈)

[@caitlynsult2685]

Thank you

[@iski4317]

thanks

[@adiabd1]

This comment should be upvoted

[@caitlynsult2685]

Adi Abdillah This is not Reddit

[@caitlynsult2685]

Adi Abdillah I like reddit but take you shenanigans somewhere else

[@lauriekimani]

I hate it when someone falls off a building when the spiderman's powers fail.

[@descentplayer]

Car alarms are only slightly annoying compared to someone blasting their subwoofer so loud it causes the structure you are in to rattle. You should do a video about that. Why are those systems even legal?

[@johnjacob688]

They don't have to be illegal. The towns sound ordinance is enough for the cops to issue a ticket.

[@btaylerpackard2475]

It's totally legal BUT you could get a DTP (Disturbing the Peace) or get pulled over for being too loud.

[@haydenwiseman3056]

i cant say much about this because I am very guilty of it, i do about 150 db just rolling around town. I came here to say it definitely is illegal

[@haydenwiseman3056]

@Don Phillips so true

[@degencommander6899]

Lol I own these

[@TheRegalRolston]

I feel for the kids whose parents need an alarm to remind them they exist...

[@catarinamelchiorgomes8750]

Said the person that forgets everything when leaving the house

[@jakestolar8457]

It's a real thing - perfectly attentive parents can have their normal routine disrupted and make an awful mistake. If you want a long, very sad article about check this out: www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/fatal-distraction-forgetting-a-child-in-thebackseat-of-a-car-is-a-horrifying-mistake-is-it-a-crime/2014/06/16/8ae0fe3a-f580-11e3-a3a5-42be35962a52_story.html

[@_JayRamsey_]

@@jakestolar8457 You weren't kidding about that being long! It was a good, important read though, and incredibly sad. I can't imagine continuing to live after an event like that. I'd never forgive myself.

[@Erica0024]

I was shocked on that to . Lmao

[@idontwantone54]

@@jakestolar8457 oh my god that article is horrific

[@clonescope2433]

For me what what makes them annoying is how sensitive people set them then they go to like a fireworks show so once a first firework goes off all you hear for the rest of the show is a couple hundred car alarms.

[@MannyBlaaze]

I don't think it's the actual people setting the sensitivity haha it's the stereo places

[@asneecrabbier3900]

car alarms should be gunshot sounds and someone yelling: GET AWAY FROM MY CAR

[@1puppetbike]

In the early 90's My friend came to visit me with a "jive talking alarm" the next day his van had hand prints all over the glass from people smacking it to hear the jive talk. "Boop Boop / it's on!" "If you value your life.. stay away from the ride!" "I'm warning you!" "WooWooWooWooWoo!" I think it inspired Samuel Jackson's persona. I wonder if he was in uptown then?

[@russyp]

I exhaled sharply through my nose

[@missmoxie9188]

That would work

[@wonhoscake1214]

I’m wheezing

[@Woodledude]

Hilarious, but that might actually be worse. Think about it.

[@CZsWorld]

Why don't we hear them anymore? Maybe because we're on lockdown?

[@michaelcunningham4587]

clearly you dont live in an area with fireworks...

[@orchdork775]

@@michaelcunningham4587 Thank god for winter 😂

[@DontScareTheFish]

Because people have immobilisers now ?

[@SpinningcatOMG]

Lockdown, where?

[@LSnium]

You are in lockdown bud, not me, im outside doing stuff, unlike you scared of something.

[@simplicitylost]

Literally my neighbors' car alarm went off during this video. 😆 I couldn't believe it.

[@xtremegamer2218]

My neighbor never ever has his car's alarm go off, and I heard it in the middle of the night last night, lol.

[@alveolate]

they've developed sentience after this video went thru the youtube algorithm!

[@DL3MMA]

There’s was a car on my block that was parked right outside my window everyday. And every it’s alarm would go off for 10-15 minutes every hour. I suffered through it for a year, and finally reported it to 311 with video evidence. I also left a note on the car. I didn’t think anything would happen, but surprisingly they fixed the problem in a week. I was finally able to sleep.

[@Sinaeb]

I still hear them daily

[@BBGUNGAMER110]

@m3zmr lol you make it seem like you guys are hearing things.

[@SchizoidRambler]

@@BBGUNGAMER110 we ain't, its just that people that cant hear them are deaf.

[@workonitm8]

Car alarms are a nuisance but the ones that blow the horn are INFURIATING !

[@levihalperin7649]

Stop stealing cars

[@guadalupealvarez9500]

Me too!! I hear them every midnight most of the time but that's when most the of neighborhood is asleep.

[@Donnerwamp]

A wise man once told me "Don't steal things with GPS in it!"

[@Hyraethian]

**Hears car alarm** **Turn up volume on TV** The child detection idea makes waaay more sense. That could save sooo many lives.

[@LilliD3]

@@moefag and we'd also get desensitized to it. It would be really annoying if you just left a jacket or something in the back

[@bcubed72]

Do parents routinely forget that they have children? I thought that only happened in _Home Alone_ movies.

[@21stCenturyDub]

Whoever wrote the title clearly doesn't live in the hood, nor a trailer park

[@phillip2169]

@@ebenj.389 oh shut up

[@llj8214]

@m3zmr ah yes though I live in a white neighborhood but still has a lot of car theft doesn’t matter because I’m white

[@boogiemcsploogie]

In the hood, people often trip their own caralarms to show the rest of the neighborhood that they have a car worth alarming. It is an irritating way of showing status.

[@muhaddesachowdhury1001]

I don’t even live in the hood and still hear this shit

[@joemann7971]

that's cuz the hood is where all those old cars with the old alarms went. That still doesn't make this trend invalid.

[@GokkeSokkenDK]

I remember always thinking about how almost all cars in the US had car alarms in films when I was younger, meanwhile you almost never see them here in Denmark

@Glorbiie In general, the car alarms that go off in the US are due to bad key fob designs or old/cheap aftermarket alarms (with the sensitivity turned to max) that poor/immigrants put on their vehicles. It's been this way since the mid-'80's.. car alarms never worked, police never paid attention to them, and they never stopped a car thief. They're security theater. That's why anyone with common-sense doesn't bother with them. Lojack, GPS tracking/disabling, and manufacturer tracking/disabling have all made car alarms utterly futile. Btw, I'd like to emigrate from the US to Denmark (or Singapore, Switzerland, or Finland) on humanitarian grounds because of: - anti-intellectual persecution... and the freedumb to shop while not wearing a mask and believe everything they misheard on Fox News - self-serving, corrupt political system that cannot be changed by ostensible general election voting - dangerous leadership encouraging white supremacy and stochastic terrorism - crazy, suicidal, conspiracy theorist, religious terrorists with assault rifles out to commit another mass shooting today - millions of homeless people (a sign of grotesque inequality and lack of safety nets) - highest per-capita incarceration rate on the planet - millions of borderline-suicidal people wasting their lives away in despair on addictions like drugs, alcohol, TV, movies, food, and video games - hundreds of millions of obese people - there are so many drug addicts.. you can tell because 97% of Americans not obese are addicts - no universal healthcare.. bankruptcy process is common for people dying from cancer. - no universal mental healthcare system! The initiatives JFK started were never completed and the previous system was annihilated without a replacement. - no so much of a civilization with communities as it is a miserable, open-air prison where most people hate one-another and property-owning neighbors do not know each other

[@Mario_N64]

There's a lot less crime in Denmark, I suppose.

[@Gamer.Instinct]

I can’t remember the last time I heard a car alarm

[@PeugeotRocket]

@@thejonsisback Not everyone is in a dense enough area where it simply becomes inevitable due to statistics.

[@jamjamc]

Plays music 🎶🎵 Neighbors car alarm goes off 🚨🚨😂😂😂

[@dulguunmurunbarsbold210]

I'm so used to hearing them I don't even mind them. They're basically the good old urban rooster to me.

[@ifuckedyourtiger]

I absolutely hate people who forget their children in the car but I LOVE Hyundai for doing that

[@lorenipsum93]

I love the people defending this, Like "oh, parents get distracted" ok, well I mean you should be using that mirror that's literally in front of your face often when you're driving anyway so if you forget your kid then; does that also mean that you shouldn't be driving either? Short answer, yes.

[@PeugeotRocket]

@@lorenipsum93 Who uses the mirror once they are parked?

[@valerierodger7700]

@@lorenipsum93 Wow, are you really that clueless? Nobody gives a shit about the parents or how they shouldn't be driving, they care about *the kids*

[@funkygerbil2530]

My GF wakes me up one morning, "Somebody is shaking the trailer." I listened for car alarms. "Nope, it's an earthquake." and I went back to sleep.

Also, my cousin slept through the Northridge quake and said her bed ended up on the opposite side of the room. 😂

[@juliantotriwijaya9208]

Car, touched slightly Car: *drama queen mode activated!*

[@johnsimun6533]

I remember when I was younger, I would ride down the streets and set off car alarms with my stereo, hilarious. Even better at the mall, and especially in the multilevel parking lots, the reverb from concrete above and below is great.

[@davidpelayo]

I do that but with the exhaust of my car, it's tuned for low rumble, you just feel the vibrations it's not a fart cannon

[@johnjacob688]

@@davidpelayo My stock Mini Cooper S does that every once in a while at low RPM.

[@charleshines1553]

I like the idea of a silent alarm. It would not only not be a lot less annoying but you would have a better chance of catching them in the act or calling the police. Not only that with alarms that people can't hear, they might be more cautious of which cars they are stealing. It might also make it less likely that thieves would break into some cars to steal valuables

[@peterthumpkin1921]

despite this all, I worked in a sketchy part of the city and had video footage of nearly 2-3 people a month trying my car to see if there was anything worth breaking into it for(used a proximity sensor); less about car jacking and broken windows...... pretty sure it paid for itself 10 times over

[@brokewithexpensivetaste1222]

*Imagine* waiting the car while your parents shopped locking you inside the car, you open the door and the alarms goes off in the parking lot. Everyone is looking at you while the alarm continues to go off

[@cfan6716]

Happened to me one time lmao...so loud

[@chulscapetillo]

I moved to Australia and I swear i have probably only heard one in the last five years..

[@theoriginalmcsquare]

V U a lot less I found there was a lot less threat of auto theft in Australia compared to Canada or let alone the states, having lived on both continents

[@Warrenmitchum]

My car still has a horn but it only goes off if the door opens.

[@1puppetbike]

One person or alarm?

[@1puppetbike]

@@Warrenmitchum you open your door to honk? How refreshing.

[@LSnium]

Getting into my own car when the alarm goes off makes me feel like im stealing my own car.

[@domt6802]

Guys watch this at 1.25x speed and it almost sounds like they aren't trying stretching to the 10min ad revinue mark

[@JayFreely]

Why does hitting the 10 minute mark matter to you so much? Let them make money without complaining. Their videos are entertaining and you can always fast forward

[@taitano12]

LOL I remember when the exhaust on my Ford Ranger went out. I was way too poor to fix it and the sound would often set off car alarms as I drove down the street.

[@dave8599]

i got a car that has an exhaust that will trigger alarms. rev it while lapping the parking lot!

[@dariusanderton3760]

In the 1990s I had a small Chevy Chevette and the muffler got badly damaged and it was extremely loud. I was driving around downtown looking for a parking spot and every time I went around a certain corner my damaged muffler caused the alarm on a certain expensive car to go off. I ended up driving around that block about four times and every time I went past that car the alarm sounded. It got pretty hilarious. It was right in front of a restaurant full of people and they looked extremely annoyed.

[@Mr.E723]

Makes sense. How often do you hear a car alarm going off and actually think it’s a car being broken into? I don’t think I’ve ever thought that, ever

[@skitlus335]

I dunno if I think that, but I don't really care whether it's happening or not. If the owner cares about their shit they can store it somewhere privately.

[@raterus]

Come to think of it, I never hear them anymore. Of course I live 1/2 mile off the nearest paved road, in the country, and am just coming off COVID lockdown, so go figure

[@economixxxx]

I had to watch this at 2x to hear it at a normal human pace. They really wanted to milk this to over 10 mins long

[@danielsteel5251]

This 'unnatural playback speed' thing is becoming *annoyingly common* with KZbin videos. Rarely, I've seen it happen where the uploader made some mistake that caused rendering to accelerate it instead (so that 1x felt like 2x, and 2x felt like 4x). It's even stranger.

[@MrXdeDEdex]

pro tip. thank you random citizen!

[@ozdemirogulcan]

You're right but I can't watch 2x because I'm not a native speaker :D

[@PeugeotRocket]

I don't believe you. 2x playback is way too fast. It sounds totally unnatural.

[@missmoxie9188]

Omg I remember a commercial where a car alarm was going off and an old lady threw a sofa out the window of her apartment crushing the alarming car

[@tommybuick2209]

I think it was a Snicker's commercial if I'm not mistaken.

[@lordroyalnightmare]

That last bit is very helpful information for me. I don't have kids, but sometimes if I have more than one other person in the car with me, we might stop somewhere in which someone in the back might stay in the car. Now I know to check for this particular alarm feature, because on occasion I have absentmindedly locked my car after leaving, even though someone was in it. The funny thing is that the last time I remember doing this, the alarm still went off because the person inside opened their door while it was still locked.

[@backwoodsbumpkin7209]

In laws had a car that’s alarm would go off because of a light rain and one time I swear because a bird flew nearby by it.

[@alveolate]

the most extra-annoying part about this is... the car is probably a cheap-ass beater, amiright.

[@itsafinch]

That poor car defines what it's like to have anxiety 😂

[@steveb6082]

As a locksmith shop we get brutally verbally abused from people who lose their keys and see what replacement costs are. That or buy a used car that only comes with 1 key because transponder keys and proximity/fob keys because of the high cost of the key and the programming. Also, it's even more expensive if all the keys are lost. And then the "sidewinder" keys , or otherwise known as laser keys have a significantly higher cost too. I understand the need for anti-theft protection but the car manufacturers are financially raping their customers, which is why we make such good money. All that being said, I do feel bad for modern car owners.

[@moisebrenes3465]

The overly sensitive car alarms that get triggered over everything remind me of some people i know

[@Willy-nu3oc]

hahaha every time

[@syndrome5372]

In my neighbourhood, someone had a car where if you walked past the car on the pavement and never touched or went near the car, it would be like "YOU ARE TOO CLOSE TO THE VEHICLE. STEP AWAY FROM THE VEHICLE OR AN ALARM WILL SOUND" followed by the loudest alarm you ever heared. he used to get his windows bricked by neighbours a lot in the night.

[@ramochai]

I hope that obnoxiously loud emergency sirens, obnoxiously loud reversing alarms (a.k.a. "back-up beepers") and obnoxiously loud car/motorbike engines (a.k.a. "I have a very small sized genitalia, that's why I particularly enjoy driving this noisy vehicle") next. Can't wait.

[@FlexibleToast]

This is something I hadn't realized I had forgotten about until watching this video. I haven't heard that classic alarm in many years.

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

When it said *boooop* I felt that

[@wheneggsdrop1701]

I felt that 2

[@Melissa0774]

Years ago, I saw a story on 20/20 about how annoying car alarms were. I think it might have been a John Stossel piece. I remember they showed an alarm that played rap. It was a recording of a guy saying something like "step back, get away from the vehicle!" but it was a rap song. I wish I could find this on KZbin, but there's no videos of anything like it. I know it existed though.

[@billyjobobb]

Had a lady who set off her alarm get mad at me for not being concerned about her alarm. I told her I knew it had to be hers because thieves are smart enough to not set off the alarm.

[@TerminusVox]

The term "carjacking" was used in the video as a synonym for car theft. Carjacking usually describes stealing the car by force (or threat of force) directly from the owner.

[@Iquey]

I want my car alarm to just play the "Run" song from the vine video on loop.

[@pearlkohler5422]

When I was a kid, for the entire 2 years I lived at this one apartment, the same car alarm on my street would go off at the exact same time every night like 2am, then trigger a second car’s alarm for like a solid half hour and I consider this trauma

[@hhdhpublic]

Immobelizer sounds like a metal plate that hits the back of your neck from the headrest and paralyzes you.

[@nanamacapagal8342]

When you said the car alarms detect movement when the door is locked, I immediately had flashbacks to the times we played volleyball in school and the ball flew off hitting the car door.

[@Liggliluff]

(0:30) Interestingly, in real life, I've only heard the car alarms played after 0:20, but those before that point (the slow rising tone, the lower tone beeping that isn't the horn) I've never heard in real life. It's only with car horn, and the higher pitched sound fluctuating back and forth. - I wonder why this is the case.

[@Ashquacks]

In some places, particularly certain European countries, car alarm sirens sold aren't allowed to make all those other sounds (aka 6-tone sirens). Either just the wailing up and down, or horn honking.

[@brianleeper5737]

@@Ashquacks Those 6-tone sirens have been around for a long time..I remember hearing them 30 years ago. They all sound the same and play the same tones in the same order.

[@albratgaming2348]

Car Alarms went off and kept going off all night long.. Until someone actually got fed up of it. Smashed the guys window, released the hand brake and rolled the car away. Cut the bonnet off and lodged a sledge hammer in the battery. Then rolled the car back and parked it up again. It was strange, the new car the person bought had no car alarm after that. But we got so used to hearing his car alarm all the time... that we never bothered to check or even CARED if someone actually stole it. We would have been glad if someone had stolen the car to be honest.

[@jgrab1]

I live in a "nice" neighborhood and I hear plenty of them.

[@runningfromabear8354]

I don't hear car alarms around here. I wonder why some areas are still hearing lots of car alarms and others aren't.

[@c4onmylip]

@@runningfromabear8354 He probably has older cars in his neighborhood with alarms installed. It would pretty much feel random I would think, all depending on who owns what cars in what area part of the neighborhood. I live in a pretty nice neighborhood but you can see all kinds of different makes and models from various decades in driveways all up and down it. Sometimes I hear the random alarm going off but it's pretty infrequent.

[@brianleeper5737]

@@c4onmylip Also it seems like the older these alarms get, the more likely they are to go off randomly.

[@c4onmylip]

@@brianleeper5737 That is true man!

[@chrisSVT]

I had numerous car alarms back in the day (late 90's). I think the reason most people no longer need car alarms is because the car manufacturers have better stereos in their vehicles. I had said security systems to help prevent people from stealing my old stereos.

[@RachelsSweetie]

When I hear a car alarm I go over to ask if I can help break in or steal it but they are false alarms every time.

[@kaamn1829]

Hate it when that happens, smh. 😔 Gets my hope up for nothing!

[@nottiification]

Also, backup beeps. Backup beeps have become so ubiquitous that we've all learned to tune them out, completely negating their original purpose. Now they are little more than intentional noise pollution.

[@srt4x4]

I literally installed a full alarm system in my vehicle last week (8/21/20).

[@smokebluntsonn]

“...Carjackings went down 96%..” I totally doubt that, considering that a carjacking and stealing a car ( Grand Theft Auto) are two completely different things. A car jacking is when someone puts a gun in your face and tells you to get out.

[@sportmode6438]

I miss mocking all the different sounds car alarms made when I was a kid😁😁

[@devalishxb91]

I like how this popped up as soon as I got a viper alarm system installed on both my cars lol😂😂

[@missmoxie9188]

OMG! A CAR ALARM IS GOING OFF!! SOMEONE’S CAR IS BEING STOLEN!!!! ~ said NOBODY EVER

[@Coalrollinfurry]

General Motors designed the first immobilizer it was called vats. It was a simple resistor lockout of 15-22 values. Ford did not design the rfid and did not design the first immobilizer.

[@DrStorm_real]

Someone just hit my car while i m watching this video 🤣🤣🤣 hit me up

[@cfhay]

I remember a few decades ago in Europe there was (maybe still is) a car stealing scheme where they tried to cross country borders with the stolen car. Some cars had a silent alarm system which didn't make any audible sound, but gave a warning to border control guards. Owners usually kept the alarm on. So when the owner approached a border and they forgot to turn off the alarm, then the guards asked them to turn off the alarm. If the driver complied immediately that was fine, but when they said "what alarm", the guards started asking questions. I don't know what's fate or the current state of this system though.

[@FinancialShinanigan]

I think someone needs an ear exam.

[@paulw.woodring7304]

I used to be a locomotive engineer for a major U. S. railroad. A couple of times I'd come up to a car or cars parked really, really close to the tracks and just for fun I'd goose the throttle and lay on the horn as I passed them to set of the car alarm. Great sport.

[@wisdomadingo2844]

Who used to intentionally set car alarm off just to piss the owner as kids.

[@silvertongue00]

Yeah we would hit a car’s tire and start dancing with the siren. Hahahahah

[@lorefreak94]

I rememeber in high school marching band. Everytime we moved from the band room to the football field this one white suv's car alarm would go off from the thump of the bass drum as we passed.

[@Drive-n-Vibe]

the vauxhall corsa in the thumbnail doesn't have one. just an immobiliser.

[@fadid5372]

This channel has improved so much since i first got introduced into it through HAI. Good Job guys! :D

[@5pctLowBattery]

10:50 parents are really forgetting their child in the back seat?!? Why so distracted?

[@elllieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee]

Because sometimes parents will forget that the backseats have a child lock and that the kid can't open the door.

[@PeregrineHawthorn]

Yeah, I hear car alarms multiple times a week at my place. I haven't figured out how to set off my own alarm, even with an "Alarm" button on my keys, but I've heard it go off before. Also, literally everybody knew about the desensitization. That's literally how a test is measured. You test its true positive and negative, and its false positive and negative to see if it actually works. If the false positive rate is too high, the alarm ceases to communicate anything. Case in point, when was the last time you heard a smoke detector going off and thought "fire!?" Try never. They go off with steam, humidity, the neighbor is grilling, and some wires got crossed inside, but I've found actual fires on my stove and heard not a peep out of them.

[@jmcd21182]

Some Jackass at my apartments had their alarm going off ALL NIGHT 2 nights in a row so I left a friendly letter suggesting that he disconnect his battery until the problem was fixed or I would BUST OUT EVERY WINDOW if it happened a 3rd night.

[@Ookiespookies]

Super healthful. Just randomly looked this up, found this. Awesome 😂

[@drew7457]

3 minutes and 5 dislikes? U haven't even watched the whole video!

[@dlwatib]

You didn't mention the real reason you don't hear as many car alarms now. The false alarms were so obnoxious that nobody wanted to be a good Samaritan any more and save a car that was actually being stolen. In fact, all the neighbors were cheering that this was the last time they were likely to hear that particular alarm.

[@COOLESTDELLCAIN]

How often do you change titles?

[@brickman409]

I think the biggest problem with car alarms is that you don't know if it's your car alarm going off or somebody else's. I don't mean that in a selfish way but if you get woken up in the night hearing a car alarm and don't think it's coming from your car, you're going to think one of two things; either it was accidentally triggered or somebody else already has the issue handled. So more likely than not you are just going to go back to sleep. I think one way this can be improved is if a notification gets sent to your phone, that way you know it's your car's alarm that's going off and you might want to go check it out. I wonder if some cars already do this.

[@someonehere8280]

Short answer: were on lockdown so we’re inside our homes more and inside cars less

[@Wavezzzz601]

Nope

[@j__Shaww]

I think the're talking about why we've been hearing them less over the past decade..not the past 3 months lol

[@BarakaGitari]

Didn't watch the vid huh

[@mr.froschi6526]

Lol didnt know that super sensitive car alarms arent common anymore for so long. I grew up thinking if i would just touch a car the alarm would go off. Thanks for this video.

[@greentjmtl]

Why, does, every, one, on, Cheddar, talk, so, s, l, o, w.

[@Lusitania17]

I, don’t, know, why.

[@KMcNally117]

1.5 speed. Problem solved

[@KosaiAvonej]

Ex-Retail Worker here. I was once outside of the grocery store filling a vending machine and the shop I worked in was in "that part of town" where every store is either a pawn shop, adult video store or gun shop with bars on the windows. You see a lot of stuff grabbing carts and dealing with anything outdoors of the storefront but it generally all blends in except this event stood out to me, I'll stop with the exposition and get to my story now. This old lady drove up in a newer BMW ( Late 00's ) and went grocery shopping inside and I then saw 3 youths go near her car only to set the alarm off and then run off. They did however make eye contact with me and did that double-take stop running motion but that's when I threw my hands up shoulder shrugging saying "It's none of my business, I'm not gonna do anything." and then they continued on. I reported it to my boss and ultimately he called the cops - Those guys got caught the same day a few hours later four blocks over trying to break into a metal fab shop that closed down earlier that day. I ultimately had to give a statement to the police and that was it, they got charged with attempted vehicle theft and our cameras outside the store pretty much solidified the case against them.

[@painkillerjones6232]

Had a neighbor who liked to "test" his alarm every night, so that the world knew he had it. Every damn night.... Took a slingshot to it one night while it was in "test" mode, and the drivers side window went bye-bye..he just couldn't figure out how it happened, as the alarm never, in his mind, went "off" ......just a broken window, and no clue as to how it happened without the alarm going off...

[@peanutbutterisfu]

My friend got a ticket for his alarm because the neighbor complained it went off too much lol. You don’t hear them now because every car comes with an alarm.

[@MiniTruckinJay]

I install car alarms/remote starters. Alarms has "shock sensors" that you can adjust to avoid the alarm going off by sound/vibration. There are also relays installed on the ignition system to stop the car from starting when armed identically oem alarms today. Now with push button starts, its easier to steal a car then it was in the 90's. Signal can be grabbed and re programmed wirelesly to another key fob, opening and starting the car in seconds. Advice - don't hang your car keys by the front door if you have a push start. The signal can be grabbed thru your front door without your knowledge.

[@46wac]

When I hear one those car alarms go off in my neighborhood in the middle of the night, I just go down and scratch the car with my keys and leave a note.

[@joecummings1260]

I had a older GMC dump truck back in the 90's with a 478 cubic inch V6 in it. Had a real low rumble to it. Working in the city it set off the car alarms of the cars parked on the street.

[@microsoftsam_yt]

Ever notice how car alarms in movies and TV shows all have that same stock car alarm sound? And when someone locks their car with their key fob, it always goes "chirp chirp". When in real life, it's just the same sound as the car horn.

[@jcopp2031]

I 1994 I lived on the uphill side of the street in the foothills near the Rose Bowl. As soon as the shaking stopped from the 1994 Northridge earthquake, I went out on the front deck to see what was going on. The power was off on both my hill and the hill across the little valley, as well as most of downtown LA. Everything was complete dark except for the flashing lights of hundreds of car alarms that had been set off by the quake. The hillsides seemed to be twinkling like stars. The blaring horns and sirens from the cars were eerily loud compared the the abnormal silence.

[@xtremegamer2218]

One of my friends has a mid to late 2000s Chrysler 300, and that bitch is sensitive af. You start a Chevy with custom loud exhausts and the alarm goes off. You put some loud music with bass and it goes off. Even if you barely bump into it with another vehicle, it goes off. I've pressed the panic alarm button on my F150 parked right next to the car and the alarm STILL went off.

[@Elliandr]

I remember this one time fairly recently that I was walking to my car in a grocery store parking lot and I just moved passed a car that I had to go passed to get my car and the proximity of my presence alone set the car alarm off. No one around me responded even a little bit.

[@buddyclem7328]

*past

[@XzTS-Roostro]

The rear occupancy alarm system is used by Thomas Built Buses, which is owned by Frieghtliner, which is owned by Diamlier Trucks North America, which is owned by Diamlier AG, the parent company of Mercedes-Benz