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Re:A surprisingly simple way to foil car thieves by dahwolf on Monday July 17, 2023 @03:33PM (#36762876)
When I was younger here in the Netherlands a lot of us had tweaked motorcycles/scooters that would go much faster than the allowed cap of 50km/h.

Many had a "cop switch". Cops suspecting you messed with the engine would put the scooter on a test belt to measure its maximum speed. The cop switch would instantly cap it to the allowed speed. Mine was hidden in the left mirror, a minor adjustment would activate it.

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Re:A surprisingly simple way to foil car thieves by jeremy_wiebe on Monday July 17, 2023 @03:54PM (#36763168)
Sounds like a VW: behaves differently under test.
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Re:A surprisingly simple way to foil car thieves by aodonnell2536 on Monday July 17, 2023 @08:41PM (#36766251)
Schrödinger’s Volkswagen
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Re:A surprisingly simple way to foil car thieves by JanNash on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @01:22AM (#36768137)
https://github.com/auchenberg/volkswagen
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