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From: ugzannin@sunybcs.UUCP (Adrian Zannin)
Newsgroups: net.auto.tech
Subject: Re: Motion sensors in car alarms
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Date: Thu, 20-Feb-86 20:14:26 EST
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   I don't know too much about auto alarms, but I can offer some advice...
DON'T get an overly sensitive motion/impact sensor.  I live in Buffalo,
N.Y. and at times it gets a bit windy.  There is a 1985 Nissan 300-ZX
here with an alarm on it.  Every time the wind picks up to about 20 mph,
it rocks the car a little bit and....BINGO!  You have one nice bright red
car flashing its lights and making all kinds of racket, causing pedestrians
to take a rather wide path around the car so as not to be suspected of 
tampering with the car.  (BTW, it is rather funny to listen to the thing 
after a while when the battery is run way down...I guess they guy doesn't
have a pager unit...)

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     Adrian Zannin
     SUNY at Buffalo Computer Science

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