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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.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 31 2016, @05:06PM
Yeah. If this happened in the USA it could be another of those "uncooperative" black guys trying not to be killed. After all they get shot dead even if they raise their hands, or try to take out their IDs (as requested by the cops themselves!).
Heck even the non-black guys get killed when they raise their hands: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dq6JzzJ1OLQ#t=7m30s [youtube.com]
For some weird reason they didn't shoot him when he was doing far more threatening stuff before, but shot him dead when he seemed to have cooled down and raised his hands.
If people haven't been using the power they have properly you shouldn't be giving them even more power.