> What the freak is a “kill switch”? <
Back when I was a poor college student I drove a beat-up used car that I couldn’t afford to replace. So I put a kill switch in it myself - I cut the wires to the ignition and wired in a high-quality switch. The switch was hidden under the passenger side of the dash.
Whenever I had to park in a sketchy area I turned that switch off. And it saved me once. Someone broke into my car and tried to hot-wire it. It was a no-go for him. And I still had my car, now a bit more beat up than before.
“The switch was hidden under the passenger side of the dash.”
Great idea. Reminds me of a friend that put a horn in the back end of his car. When stuck in traffic at the University with students walking between the stopped cars, he could honk that rear horn and the students would think is was coming from the car behind his.