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blinking car alarm of modern life, below
Many cars have a small light that pulses like a heartbeat at 80 or 90 beats per minute within easy sight of the windshield so that anybody contemplating a break-in or vehicle theft will be put on notice that the car *could possibly* alert the nearby police or at least shriek with a panic rhythm of its horn and lights. It is possible that the light is no more than a light, though, since few robbers would care to test the apparatus empirically. Instead another car would make an easier target, although nowadays even that one could be alarmed. When surrounded by strangers and with identity, status, and entitlements all fluid, only keys, passwords, credentials and alarms provide some boundaries to keep people from veering off track and into another person's property, personal life, or social boundaries.
blinking car alarm of modern life, below
Many cars have a small light that pulses like a heartbeat at 80 or 90 beats per minute within easy sight of the windshield so that anybody contemplating a break-in or vehicle theft will be put on notice that the car *could possibly* alert the nearby police or at least shriek with a panic rhythm of its horn and lights. It is possible that the light is no more than a light, though, since few robbers would care to test the apparatus empirically. Instead another car would make an easier target, although nowadays even that one could be alarmed. When surrounded by strangers and with identity, status, and entitlements all fluid, only keys, passwords, credentials and alarms provide some boundaries to keep people from veering off track and into another person's property, personal life, or social boundaries.