I consciously ignore car alarms. I try to never look out a window or turn my head around to see why one’s going off. Something about a device that has at least a 99% false positive rate (I’ve never actually witnessed a car alarm reporting a real burglary), uses a 100 dB horn or alarm, and tends to go off in the 4am to 8am hours just rubs me the wrong way. I feel no sympathy for your car if it’s actually being stolen or burglarized because I’ve become desensitized to car alarms.

Car alarms seem to be one of those automotive technologies that was introduced in the late 1970s/early 1980s, and haven’t changed much since. They still fail just as much, and they still are just as annoying.