What if car alarms were replaced with personal alarms?

Elise@beehaw.org to Chat@beehaw.org – 12 points –

I mean, whenever I hear an alarm I ignore it, because I just hear it so often. But what if instead we used these types of alarms for real emergencies? For example a personal alarm to protect yourself.

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It would have to be something that won't get accidentally activated all the time like car alarms do now (typically the "panic" button getting pressed accidentally in pockets/purses). Otherwise, I feel we'd be back to where we started.

Maybe something old school like a whistle or something?

I feel like this already exists and is called a rape whistle. Although, to be fair, I'm honestly not sure how effective that would be. If a woman is being attacked, would she have time to actually blow this whistle?

Have you heard of personal alarms? They're tiny but incredibly loud and typically has a bright flash light.

No, I have not actually heard of these. I will have to look them up. Thanks for the information.

I was thinking of getting one. But I'm afraid people would ignore it due to all the useless car alarms.