Most car alarms go off when they‘re not supposed to, and even the ones that go off when they‘re supposed to don‘t do a thing to stop theft, so why do people bother to buy them?
Apathy and too many false alarms. Really, no one cares anymore. But, it's like insurance in a way as someone, at some time, may just be thwarted by it. I've been paying for apartment insurance for many, many years, and never used it. I was just thinking I could have put a down payment on a house by now, but insurance is just that, just in case. It may seem like a waste, but it's a sense of security for some, also I think insurance companies give discounts for a security system, so it pays to have it, but only on some cars, not junkers. Even though, ironically, those are the ones broken into more often. I mean the less expensive models, not necessarily junk though.
Originally designed to spur people to action and make them call the police, people have become to used to the sound of them being triggered automatically. They go off when people pass by, with the slightest tremor of the earth due to a passing truck and for all sorts of reasons. The result is that nobody takes them seriously. I doubt they're even a useful deterrent after so many years of constant false alarms
Maybe nobody pays attention to car alarms but my dog does. When car alarm goes off up to two blocks away he starts howling like a lonely wolf. So everyone in the neighborhood pays attention to him. He's training other dogs to howl with him
