24 March 2006
Immobilizing Chase Cars
In recent reports on NPR and The New Yorker Online, the Los Angeles Police Department was said to be undertaking new technologies in order to reduce the danger of dealing with automobile chases on the streets and freeways. The techniques they are using include controlled collisions with patrol cars, spike trays thrown on the road in the way of speeding vehicles, and GPR darts shot into the car bodies that allow the chase vehicles to be tracked via satellite.
There must be a remote disabling gun, based on laser or magnetic technology, that would immobilize runaway vehicles by shorting out their electrical ignition systems. Isn’t it better to stop a wild driver in his tracks and apprehend him than to find his abandoned vehicle after the chase has been given up?
In recent reports on NPR and The New Yorker Online, the Los Angeles Police Department was said to be undertaking new technologies in order to reduce the danger of dealing with automobile chases on the streets and freeways. The techniques they are using include controlled collisions with patrol cars, spike trays thrown on the road in the way of speeding vehicles, and GPR darts shot into the car bodies that allow the chase vehicles to be tracked via satellite.
There must be a remote disabling gun, based on laser or magnetic technology, that would immobilize runaway vehicles by shorting out their electrical ignition systems. Isn’t it better to stop a wild driver in his tracks and apprehend him than to find his abandoned vehicle after the chase has been given up?
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