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Public Safety Increased With the Ability to Remotely Disable Vehicles

posted by cmn32480 on Sunday July 31 2016, @02:54PM   
from the not-just-for-stopping-speeders-anymore dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

To increase public security, the EU SAVELEC project has demonstrated a prototype device that can stop non-cooperative vehicles, both safely and at distance.

In its endeavour to keep the public safe, one of the key challenges facing European security services is the ability to control and stop, at distance, non-cooperative vehicles posing a threat. However, this ability presents more than a technical challenge. To comply with EU legislation, as well as adhere to ethical concerns, the technology would also have to be safe for the user, the driver (and passengers), as well as members of the public and the material infrastructure of the surrounding environment.

The SAVELEC (Safe control of non cooperative vehicles through electromagnetic means) project developed a prototype device, after testing signals (magnetic pulses and microwave), which interfered with key car components, forcing it to slow down and stop. With the contribution of security forces as the ultimate end users, the researchers were able to simulate the technology's use in realistic scenarios.

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• Increased, you say Increased, you say (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 31 2016, @03:53PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 31 2016, @03:53PM (#382296)

  Please, do show me the numbers. How are you measuring safety and what is the cost? Do you have an equally zealous measurement of liberty? Have you stacked these against one another?

  This claim that public safety 'is or will be increased' by this is shoddy at best... I do, however, see the increased ability for the SeSPo (Secret State Police) to interfere with you but I fail to see how this pro-actively improves safety.
  Case in point: this technology would not have prevented not minimized the event that occurred in Nice. It would only be useful in what would otherwise be a long and protracted chase (think OJ Simpson).

  <sarcasm>Please, by all means, tell me more about this technology that will keep us safe©™...</sarcasm>

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• Re:Increased, you say Re:Increased, you say (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 31 2016, @03:55PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 31 2016, @03:55PM (#382297)

  Correction: SeSPol (with 'L') instead of SeSPo

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  • Re:Increased, you say Re:Increased, you say (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 31 2016, @05:01PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 31 2016, @05:01PM (#382318)

    I take it that's pronounced "cesspool"?

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    • Re:Increased, you say (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 31 2016, @05:16PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 31 2016, @05:16PM (#382322)

      That is by design... Please use the term and get it in common usage.

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