Remote kill switch

Quote: Gandler

This is a good video of somebody going through the actual legislation:

https://youtu.be/XvqdJRpELSg




If you don't feel like watching the 30 minute video, short summary: There is nothing mandating remote kill switches, this is something drummed up by the media based on one random comment by some Congressman who thought it was in there....

Very few read fine print
I did it once regarding online casinos.
What I read was shocking
Online casinos just have to believe you are cheating to withhold money. No evidence. If they think you are cheating on just a whim, that's all they need to know and can keep all your money. Only recourse is to take them to court in some central American country. You basically have no rights to your own money.

Quote: terapined

Very few read fine print
I did it once regarding online casinos.
What I read was shocking
Online casinos just have to believe you are cheating to withhold money. No evidence. If they think you are cheating on just a whim, that's all they need to know and can keep all your money. Only recourse is to take them to court in some central American country. You basically have no rights to your own money.

I wouldn't be so quick to assume that the state-regulated online casinos have fairer terms. By the language of the terms, I would say that deposits are generally safer in the state-regulated ones, but no other meaningful differences.

Follow up:

I changed my mind and did not install a kill switch.

It dawned on me that a kill switch would not protect me from the thief damaging the truck by breaking in, and then damaging it further once inside.

I decided to pay a pro to install an alarm: $320.00.

Add that to the money I paid to have a cage affixed around the catalytic converter by a muffler shop and it's almost six hundred bucks out of pocket to deter tweakers and ne'er do wells from stealing my cat / boosting my truck.

I consider it a tax for living in America today.

Quote: missedhervee

Follow up:

I changed my mind and did not install a kill switch.

It dawned on me that a kill switch would not protect me from the thief damaging the truck by breaking in, and then damaging it further once inside.

I decided to pay a pro to install an alarm: $320.00.

Add that to the money I paid to have a cage affixed around the catalytic converter by a muffler shop and it's almost six hundred bucks out of pocket to deter tweakers and ne'er do wells from boosting my truck.

I consider it a tax for living in America today.

Well, a tax for living in Portland, anyway.

Pittsburgh, here. I keep my car locked all the time, but that's mainly just because the car being locked lets me know that the auto-headlights are going to turn off.