I think it is. There's been a few cases of people getting into the wrong cars, or testing whole parking lots for ones that will open. However, you tend to have a lot more valuables in your home normally than your car. (I'm a lot more uncomfortable with electronic locks on cars than on my home, anyway, but there's no need to assume it's universal. I did, however, reason that this is one of the many reasons that it costs more to insure a car for theft than it does a house.)
(Also, if you forget where you're parked, you can use the electric key to tell you where your car is. If you forget where you live, your problems are more profound.)
If you forget where you live, your problems are more profound. indeed.
i suppose also if a dedicated criminal wanted to rob your house, they'd know where to stake out with a device to sniff RFID signals. doing the same thing with your car requires more detailed knowledge of where your car might be....
My garage door opener is currently defunct... chain snapped. I thought the other day when returning home "wouldn't it be cool if I could hit a door opener button from the car, and have it unlock the front door?"
so that the creepy freaks hanging out in the bushes could rush inside before you had a chance. (at which point they'd be bludgeoned to death by tilly's tail, of course :-)
Don't doubt that little dog. I think she would rip an intruder apart. Either that or stay 10 feet away barking her fool head off, and explode their eardrums. She wags plenty when you come over, but it's not like that with everyone. (which I like)
house with a braintheotherguy7July 28 2009, 17:29:57 UTC
When a computer is running the house stuff more we will have electronic locking doors with physical bypass. there is so much power being pumped thought the atmosphere [and us :( ]it would recharge any retrofit door with a back up battery. mostly security right now. Some other tech is just around the corner according to a locksmith I was talking to yesterday. I had to change all the locks because my tenant did not return the keys when she left.
It has been expensive, yet the biggest fact, I think is that a house is a sanctuary, and thus the last bastion against the pervasiveness of tech. We want it to be like the past, change is slowest here. Bigger expensive homes are all built now with these options and there it can be a status symbol.
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a house lock could run off the main power, just like a doorbell.
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i suppose also running off the mains would make it tough to fail safe in the case of a power outage....
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(Also, if you forget where you're parked, you can use the electric key to tell you where your car is. If you forget where you live, your problems are more profound.)
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indeed.
i suppose also if a dedicated criminal wanted to rob your house, they'd know where to stake out with a device to sniff RFID signals. doing the same thing with your car requires more detailed knowledge of where your car might be....
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