Meh, padlocks are not for securing valuable property or for securing property against someone with any sort of tools at all. They are for preventing opportunistic theft. 30 seconds to defeat the lock is plenty long enough for that. Of course, that is a pretty stupid design, so good video nonetheless. If I owned one already, a little solder or permanent loctite on the inner screws would probably do the trick.

Mostly though, The lock company lost me at $100 for the lock. A traditional dial is not *that* hard to work and I'd be worried about false negatives and dead batteries even with a high-quality finger print reader. Just buy a $10 padlock at the hardware store to lock up your garbage cans, or proper u-lock or quality cable to lock up your $600 bicycle (ie, something that will require 15 minutes to defeat).

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Someone needs to test this for me. I couldn't find any dead batteries around the house. Let me know if you do the test.

I live in Texas (as 'Merica as 'Merica gets). There was a vet with a rascal that had a dead battery. Dude weighed around 400 pounds. I pushed that son of a gun half a mile to a grocery store where he could plug in. Meanwhile in Canada some Inuit was called a harpoon chucker.

Here there is a valid and very much apparent difference in price, Manual transmissions are less expensive. Do you understand what happens to the engine when you pop the clutch ? granted it may not work with a completely dead battery but with one that will light up the interior lights you should be good to push start one, all it takes is two or three good cylinder fires and you got an engine thats started and running off the alternator.

That method of starting has saved my ass so many times in the past I am still grateful.

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Are you talking about manual transmissions? Most American cars come "standard" with an auto trans, and sometimes charge extra for a manual. I also doubt push starting a modern car with electronic fuel injection and computer controlled everything would work.

>> ^BoneRemake:

Good ol' standards, it is for this reason alone I would buy my next vehicle as a standard.
Battery not charged?
starter screwed ?
give it a push and on your way.
not to mention the general thousand dollar difference between the two transmissions.

>> ^reiwan:

This would only on a manual transmission car, but creative none the less. Why not just push it though to get it started?


Hehehe, you MUST be american

Are you talking about manual transmissions? Most American cars come "standard" with an auto trans, and sometimes charge extra for a manual. I also doubt push starting a modern car with electronic fuel injection and computer controlled everything would work.

>> ^BoneRemake:

Good ol' standards, it is for this reason alone I would buy my next vehicle as a standard.
Battery not charged?
starter screwed ?
give it a push and on your way.
not to mention the general thousand dollar difference between the two transmissions.

So... in Soviet Russia dead battery turns YOU on?

Push a whole car through a grass field, or just spin one of the tires... one's easier but, you can do what you want
>> ^reiwan:

This would only on a manual transmission car, but creative none the less. Why not just push it though to get it started?

Yeah, *dead batteries.