Posted on 09/10/2007 9:04:17 PM PDT by jazusamo
Moreover, this would not have to happen more than a few times before leading the police on a high-speed chase would lose a lot of its attractions
The voice of reason again from Dr. Sowell.
Maybe the use of some high speed bullets would help the situation.
Shatter upon impact .50 cal round fired from a helicopter at the engine compartment of the car from above would do the trick. Such a round would penetrate the hood, shatter when it hits the engine block, but the fragmentation would cut up the radiator, hoses, belts and other soft plastic/rubber components. The engine area would start to leak and smoke and eventually the engine would overheat and seize up. Would be hell of a paperwork writeup for insurance purposes for the owner.
To address the root of the problem is to encourage people to have a system in their car that allows it to be shut down remotely.
That is, if you have a type of car commonly stolen, or you just know that you will never have any reason to try and outrun the police, a single electronic component could be added to your vehicle.
If your car is trying to evade the police, then they call your service, like OnStar, and your service turns your car off.
And if you want to play it safe, if the police notify your service, then your service could page you and confirm that you want your vehicle shut down. This would be useful if someone stole your license plates and you’re driving on the other side of town.
I agree, followed up by hard time if the driver survives.
Yeah, except I doubt he has tried to shoot a quick moving target from a moving target.
Well intended, not well thought out.
Rumor is the police are working on developing a remote control device which tells all cars nearby that have an onboard computer to shutdown and lock their doors.
It would possibly work but there are a lot of cars to outfit and it would add more cost to them because the people on the Hill would make it mandatory.
Granted it’s not the easiest thing but choppers can get pretty low.
Won’t work. Most cars sold today don’t have the software hooks or external datalinks to pull that off.
And even at close range, a HERF gun won’t do much to a car.
This is pretty funny in the context of a nearby post about a Bakerfield shooting where a reporter asked the chief why the officers didn't just shoot the guy in the foot.
LOL! I read that. It’s hard enough to hit somebody that’s shooting back let alone shoot to wound.
With all due respect, choppers get outrun and out maneuvered almost daily. The altitude they would have to maintain to get a clear shot, in an urban setting, would preclude any reliable degree of accuracy.
Why are we still trying to solve problems for our illogical and antiquated systems of transit?
If we could clear our heads, and think creatively, take the money out of the thought process; we could create a system that would eliminate car chases, a large majority of crashes, traffic jams, and pollution.
Seriously, we are looking at trillions of dollars in highway and road infrastructure improvements and expansion. Wouldn’t we be far better off spending that money on a forward thinking system. One that isn’t mostly consumable, and in constant need of repair/replacement, and that addresses a myriad of issues in one fell swoop?
In a personal and connected hybrid system of transiting, we could do this, and keep our cars, too.
Dang, I’m sorry for going so wide with your thread.
But, please, do wake me when we actually enter the 21st Century. LOL
We agree ; plus the police should have the requirement to use immediate deadly force if the perp is headed to a school or other populated area.
The police should take out any runner any way possible : guided rocket...
When there is a police helicopter overhead, a shot straight down would have little chance of hitting some innocent bystander.
Moreover, this would not have to happen more than a few times before leading the police on a high-speed chase would lose a lot of its attractions
Brilliant!
. . . and no hacker would ever disable your vehicle just for the fun of it!
Police and a military are sine qua non for a government. Yet the governmentists who trash private enterprise are equally hard on the police and the military. The unifying principle I see in this is that in all cases the people being criticized are those who are making decisions and getting things done. And the people doing the criticizing never do that.Theodore RooseveltThere is no more unhealthy being, no man less worthy of respect, than he who either really holds, or feigns to hold, an attitude of sneering disbelief toward all that is great and lofty, whether in achievement or in that noble effort which, even if it fails, comes to second achievement. A cynical habit of thought and speech, a readiness to criticise work which the critic himself never tries to perform, an intellectual aloofness which will not accept contact with life's realities - all these are marks, not as the possessor would fain to think, of superiority but of weakness. They mark the men unfit to bear their part painfully in the stern strife of living, who seek, in the affection of contempt for the achievements of others, to hide from others and from themselves in their own weakness. The rôle is easy; there is none easier, save only the rôle of the man who sneers alike at both criticism and performance.It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds . . .
You can still sleep awhile. It's only the steam age.
That's well thought out. Good suggestion.
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