A lid pops open in the grill and the tracking bullet shoots out, sticking to the bad guy’s trunk.
I thought it wasn’t to long ago that the tech talked about was something that would fry the cars computer shutting down the car and the chase.
It ran into the problem that there are a lot of cars made of metal; this means that they basically have to be touching bumpers before a cruiser-mounted HERF gun could scramble the car’s electronics. Hybrids have heavily shielded electronics due to the EM fields their electric motors produce and HERF guns are even less capable against them.
Does work against the plastic wonder, the Corvette C5, though. In one media test, it made the door locks fritz and the computer stalled the engine after the beam was held on the car for a few seconds. Unfortunately for the idea, all the operator had to do was turn the car off then back on to ‘reboot’ the car once the beam wasn’t directly playing on the car (i.e., make a sharp turn while coasting) and off it went again. Worse, the Honda Accord they tested completely ignored the weapon until it was basically at contact range - and even then it refused to shut down, only ran a little funny while the beam was on it. And they were using a larger and more powerful version than you would normally be able to mount on a cruiser. Think “large DirecTV or DishTV antenna” and you have the idea.