Warming up the car

Ok, this is not about trains, but it’s about transportation and commuting, so I guess I can still write about it …:

This was posted on BATN earlier:

Q When I [BATN: pointlessly, wastefully, unnecessarily] warm up my car in the morning, I always use two sets of keys. One to start the car and the other to lock the car when I go back into my apartment to get ready. I guess people who had their cars stolen didn’t do that?

A Bad idea. San Jose police say car thieves aren’t deterred by an unattended locked car with its engine running. If they see a car running and no one inside, they’ll smash the window and take off.

What’s with these people anyway? Aren’t the gas prices high enough already? And isn’t it summer? I can understand that people might want to warm up their car for a short while in winter, when it’s freezingly cold, but in summer? This is just plain stupid …(and there were earlier reports that some people do it for 30-45 minutes!)

On a related note, people leaving their car running while running a short errand in a nearby location is a common sight …

Posted in: Uncategorized | June 27, 2005 1:46 pm