Car-to-car missles? I can’t tell you how many times I’ve wished for them in rush hour traffic.
Wont work...Bad guys use stolen vehicles, and once the cop pursuit stops, they go out of sight and bail on foot, or jump into other cars etc, etc...
How many dogs will get shot by these darts?
The key here is that the officer needs to get close in the first place; resulting in a high speed chase.
Gallagher had predicted this back in the 1970s. Issue every driver a dart gun, and darts with a attached "stupid" flag. If someone cuts you off in traffic, you shoot their car with a stupid dart. If a cop sees a car with more than five stupid darts on the trunk, said driver will be pulled over and ticketed for being an idiot.
who pays for the damaged vehicle?
this is old tech. This is not a news story, this is a reprinted press release.
GPS?? What a joke! If they use explosive warheads it will make sure the officers go home to their families.
“What in the world do you have stuck to your forehead?”
“I think it’s one of those police GPS rockets.”
“Aren’t those supposed to hit cars?”
“Yeah.....I guess so.”
“Well, how are you going to get it removed?”
“I’m not. The girls at school thinks it makes me look kind of dangerous.”
I’ve imagined a new auto sport similar to this.
Imagine....
An arena about 1/8 mile x 1/8 mile, suped-up cars/trucks that are stripped down to racing configs (Roll cages, fuel bladders, etc.). Now, mount powerful paint guns (Fixed firing position) on the hoods of each vehicle and paint or afix “Hit spots” on each vehicle. There are teams. After a set number of hits in hit spots a vehicle is disabled where ever it ended up. Last team with a member left wins.
I expect there would be some carnage. What a hoot to watch though, right?
I’d like to have one of them for the back of my car to blow up damn tailgaters.
...........but......is it fair?????????
Semper WTF?
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Why not use the tried and true Ubama approach and simply take ‘em out with a rocket from a drone.
Won’t work. I’ll just push the button on my dash that deploys an oil slick behind my car. The police car will then go careening off course right before he can hit me with his GPS dart.
The cops will be foiled again!
Wouldnt the impact crush the GPS?
Try dropping your cell phone off a 4 or 5 story building onto your car.
If they use them against motorcycles, it could create a Seussian condition known as “a rocket in my sprocket.”
No police chase should involve more than two police cars doing the chasing.
I watch these things on the TV and the announcer says the car rips through the intersection with no thought of anyone coming the other way. Then we watch as the police car does the same thing.
One day everyone will have a mandated black box in their vehicles. The police will have access to kill switches and other monitors that will track every vehicle movement and the ability to turn off the car.
This is racist. Everybody knows that minorities are a disproportionate percentage of the drivers involved in car chases. /s
They’ll find the car, but they won’t find the crook - because he’ll be long gone - running on foot.
Will it stick to a really dirty car?????