My local free newspaper, The High Peak Courier, has an article about the Chevrolet K.I.T.T.Y, (Key Innovation That Talks To You), ? a handbag-sized remote controlled alert which enables the car to shout a personalised message to its forgetful owner making it easier to locate their misplaced vehicle.?
It appears that one in five motorists lose their car at least once a fortnight, one in four drivers thinking of reporting their car stolen.
Has anyone else come across this ? It is 25th Dec, not 1st April.
The big stores estimate that it costs them £648 million in lost sales as people search for their cars instead of buying !
Edited by Pugugly {P} on 25/12/2007 at 11:57
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Well most cars with remote locking can be made to flash their hazard lights, as a means of identification and location. Where does the stat re lost sales come from - most people who have lost their car have done their shopping and want to get home. A figure like that can't possible be based on any sort of valid research, or can it?
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cant say ive ever lost my car because of shopping, i remember parking up at an ncp all nighter then went on the lash and it took all day of sunday (the day after) to remember what car park i had left it at!
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Bristol ballon festival. Arrived early, and parked in an enormous empty field. It was impossible to find the car, in the dark, in an enormous field full of cars.
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Er indoors and her buddy, after a days spending my dosh, got quite indignant when the Focus they were pointing the plip at and trying the doors wouldnt co-operate.
Luckily her mate, who isnt blonde unlike SWMBO, eventually realised the car was the wrong colour, had 5 doors and was in fact the wrong end of the car park.
I got told the story 6 months later after they had drunk a few sherbets!
So maybe KITTY is going to be a winner?
CBG
(Bored as the boss is hogging the TV watchin numerous costume drama thingies)
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Drink Lager, Talk Piffle,
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Maybe I'm seeing this thread at the wrong time - but I have this vision of someone standing in a huge car park calling 'Kitty, kitty, kitty'......
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I have just seen that KITTY will do a personalised message - great! The men can programme it to shout "Over HERE you dozy Lummock" when the lesser half loses the car Tesco's car park
Edited by Pugugly {P} on 25/12/2007 at 20:46
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As the Yanks say.... ya can't fix stupid!
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When I was working for the Old Bill we had a distraught woman on the phone who had taken home someone else's Ford Escort - same colour, etc - because the key had fitted.
IIRC it was an interesting problem because she couldn't return it for legality and insurance reasons and the control room had to wait for it to be reported stolen because it was deemed not worth going and knocking on the registered keeper's door because they wouldn't have got home...
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