sdashiki

I thought about this on my walk to work this morning, I was baked so it may be flawed but lets see...

A friend of mine had his car stolen a little bit before he was about to put a carputer in his car. So i thought this up, a little different than another thread I saw, but same idea...

So you buy a prepaid cell phone, with a camera and put it somewhere inside the car (removable, docking station? but hidden?) that points at the driver seat. And if possible get it to communicate with your carputer so that when you start the car it takes a photo and emails it to you.

So it costs $ to do this, and a prepaid will keep you juiced for a bit if only you use it to take and send photos. But another friend of mine had an alarm in his car that would stop the engine dead 60s after it was started if you didnt turn his defrost button on and off. I knew you could attach these feature to any button, that was just chosen.

So for the phone, maybe hook up some kind of relay or phidget to always do this photo/email action if the button you hook up isnt pressed before you start the car. So someone not knowing this, would be a car theif and you have a positive ID and time in your inbox.

Could this work somehow...?

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Danceheaven

Yeah it would work and its been talked about many times before do a few searches for it, as for does it currently work already, no not yet but people are working in it as far as i know including myself

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sdashiki

I was just thinking maybe a little differently, and im stoned too., so sue me
mmhmmm

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jcdillin

at work?

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sdashiki

yeah, read my other thread...

http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/off-topic/46670-i-love-you-all.html

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sdashiki

Back to the topic, I really think this is a good idea. Saves you from having to be within WiFi range to send a photo of the theif driving your car. Just pay the 5 cents and BAM you got time and photo of your car theft.

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dualdtmz

OR, you could just wait until this comes out. This is what I plan on doing when this product is released. http://www.asianwolf.com/5100rs/8000RSsample3.jpg

antimatter

that alarm has been discussed and it is pretty much crap. Great two way reciever though

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sdashiki

yeah my idea is better anyway.

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antimatter

i didn't say all that

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sdashiki

aw cmon u dont like that idea? no wifi connection, photo and time stamp of car being stolen, even possible GPS location tracking of car in real time. LIKE LO JACK!

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kelseymonster

perhaps the security system could start the camera

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