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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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Original Submission

• Will kill my father and may be me Will kill my father and may be me (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 31 2016, @04:48PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 31 2016, @04:48PM (#382313)

  Father has pace maker. Me a insulin pump.

  Father is. It allowed to even have a microwave oven. Cannot go through TSA nudie machines

  Those same machines can cook my pump.

  Yup kill a citizen, get a paid vacation

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• Re:Will kill my father and may be me (Score: 2) by gnampff on Sunday July 31 2016, @11:24PM

  by gnampff (5658) on Sunday July 31 2016, @11:24PM (#382400)

  From TFA:
  There should also be further investigation on human health and safety implications.

  Your scenario might be on their list of things to check before going on a rampage with this kind of weaponry.
  Let us hope that this gets sacked or at least restricted to special units (instead of handing it out to some semi-trained trigger-happy cop).

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