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If You Don't Want Your Car Stolen, Make It Pink

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the how-to-quit-smoking-too dept.

pickens writes "A study in the Netherlands illustrates car thieves' preferences. From 2004-2008, the most commonly colored vehicle stolen was black. This may be because black vehicles look more luxurious. Following close behind black were gray/silver automobiles. Of the 109 pink cars in the study, not one was stolen. A bright and uncommon color, like pink, may be as effective deterrent as an expensive security system. Ben Vollaard, who conducted the research, wrote, 'If the aversion to driving a car in an offbeat color is not too high – or if someone actually enjoys it – then buying deterrence through an uncommon car color may be at least as good a deal as buying deterrence through an expensive car security device.'"

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  1. Pink cars...the new Firefox. by TheRedDuke · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I remember when Firefox was the safest browser out there...then suddenly it had a huge market share and was receiving more security updates monthly than IE. Apply this logic to pink cars.

    1. Re:Pink cars...the new Firefox. by somersault · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Number of security updates per month is a poor measure of how safe a browser is.

      A 100% safe browser would never need any updates.

      Likewise a browser could have plenty of flaws, but hardly any updates to patch those flaws. It would be receiving less updates per month, and still be less safe than a browser that started off with the same number of flaws but is having them patched more quickly.

      As far as pink goes.. how many thugs do you know that desperately want to be seen in a more feminine light?

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  2. Re:Hm... by Mr.+Freeman · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yes, there are significant differences between MAC and windows systems. However, this does NOT mean that it is impossible to create a virus for a MAC computer. It's just as easy to write a virus for mac as it is for windows. Of course, given the choice between the two any sensible person will write it for windows because they'll infect more targets with the same amount of effort.

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  3. Re:More lies with statistics... by moronoxyd · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If you insert "black" into GPs question isntead of "pink", you might realize that he is right.

    The summary states that most cars stolen where black, but it does not give any information on how that relates to the number ob black cards in the test.
    You need to put absolute numbers into relation to actually learn somthing.

    Disclaimer: I haven't read the article. For all I know the authors may address this.