One of our Walmarts has anti-theft wheels
One of our Walmarts has anti-theft wheels
None of the others in town have these, thought it was unusual enough to share
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Do you know how it works? Doesn't seem to be electronic or so... Perhaps mechanical magnet based or so
There's a talk at DEFCON on YouTube about hacking them. Great way to see how it works.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QKcprQD0zc
It's a fancier version of the electric dog collars. If you go over a perimeter line it'll turn on a parking brake for that one wheel.
Probably an electrical fence type deal. When the signal gets too weak the pins pop out to prevent the wheel from rotating. Didn't park near the edge of the property to test it lol
But what powers the wheels? Charged by spinning? What happens if they don't get used long and the wheel dies.
By spinning yes, they operate mostly passively and therefore last a long time, including by having terrible security to save battery life.