random question #316523

[buhrger]

why is it that, with electronic car door locks becoming so ubiquitous, electronic house door locks are still comparatively rare?

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house with a brain

[theotherguy7]

When a computer is running the house stuff more we will have electronic locking doors with physical bypass. there is so much power being pumped thought the atmosphere [and us :( ]it would recharge any retrofit door with a back up battery. mostly security right now. Some other tech is just around the corner according to a locksmith I was talking to yesterday. I had to change all the locks because my tenant did not return the keys when she left.

[buhrger]

the tech to do computer-run homes has been around for at least years, if not decades. and yet, like the paperless office, it's yet to materialize...

House teck

[theotherguy7]

It has been expensive, yet the biggest fact, I think is that a house is a sanctuary, and thus the last bastion against the pervasiveness of tech. We want it to be like the past, change is slowest here. Bigger expensive homes are all built now with these options and there it can be a status symbol.

[buhrger]

the last bastion against the pervasiveness of tech. We want it to be like the past
see userpic

yup

[theotherguy7]

just my opinion :)

Re: house with a brain

[theotherguy7]

car theft is common House theft is too they just usally leave the house where it is. Actually the locksmith said purse snatching is on the rise so they can get the car alarms/locks and thus easily find the car. This also leads to breakins in the house if the insurance papers in the car give the address. Does you car key have a house key attached?

[buhrger]

Does you car key have a house key attached?
not the sort of question i'm going to answer on an unlocked post :-)

Retorical anyway

[theotherguy7]

good point though. :)

[buhrger]

i suspect some folk dint notice. i don't unlock that often.