“No Alarm, No Notifications to my phone… literally nothing happened just found it like this…” wrote Cybertruck owner Anuj Thakker, who shared the upsetting news on Facebook a few days ago.

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    3 months ago

    TBF all cars are susceptible to broken windows

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        3 months ago

        Not necessarily true, most alarms only go off when a door is opened. If they break a window to open the door from the inside the alarm will sound, but if they break the window and leave the door shut: silence.

        Source: multiple cars broken into this way outside my apartment building, not one alarm went off

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          3 months ago

          I thought those alarms were mainly triggered by movement? Every time I’ve been on a ferry with a car they tell everyone to turn their alarms off for that reason.

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            3 months ago

            From what I’ve read, some cars do have movement/shock sensors, but they can be defeated by breaking the window in such a way as to cause minimal vibration to the vehicle, like a spring-loaded glass breaker. The guy who broke into my neighbour’s car took a metal rod or something, stuck it down between the glass and the dew wiper, and pulled back, putting pressure on the bit of tempered glass inside the door and causing it to shatter.

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      3 months ago

      But it takes more effort and make more noise to break cat windows than “peeling” it

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      3 months ago

      Sure, but a 100.000 dollar car that is sold as a bulletproof car that can drive over other cars in an apocalypse?