Anyone who has lived in an apartment can probably relate to this. Last Saturday, just after 6 a.m., as I was asleep, one of my neighbors was off to work, or maybe leaving for an emergency trip to the grocery store. In any case, for a reason I will never know, his car alarm went off. It blared not 10 yards from my window for at least five seconds before the owner managed to turn it off. During that five seconds I was torn from blissful slumber and dumped headfirst into cold, noisy reality.
Alarms only draw everyone's attention to the car.
According to Popular Mechanics Magazine the first car alarm was made in 1920 by a man in Nebraska. This alarm only went off, disabling the starter, when a person tried to move the car. Anti-theft devices range from items such as gadgets a person places on a steering wheel which render the car inoperable, to special electronic keys which must be used in conjunction with standard keys to start the car. These items are cheaper than most car alarms and, more importantly, they do not make noise. Another anti- theft device is the tracking device you put in your car.