Re:Seattle vigilante reuniting stolen bikes with their owners
by nmrm2 on Monday April 25, 2016 @07:15PM
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Sure.
But the people with the skill-set and interest in doing that are going to do so anyways; I don't see how anti-theft tech would convince that type of person to shell out an extra few hundred for a bike. They would just buy something and install it themselves.
I just don't see the market for integrated anti-theft. Seems more like a custom component type of thing.
Re:Seattle vigilante reuniting stolen bikes with their owners
by galdosdi on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @02:58PM
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I'd go further than that -- riding a cheap bike with a heavy U lock makes theft so rare in most places that it's not worth wasting any further time/money on the problem.
But the people with the skill-set and interest in doing that are going to do so anyways; I don't see how anti-theft tech would convince that type of person to shell out an extra few hundred for a bike. They would just buy something and install it themselves.
I just don't see the market for integrated anti-theft. Seems more like a custom component type of thing.