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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) by mcgrew on Sunday July 31 2016, @06:40PM
In America you're not a criminal unless you've been convicted of a crime. Running from the police doesn't make you a criminal, a verdict of guilty for resisting arrest does.
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(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 01 2016, @12:48PM
In America you're not a criminal unless you've been convicted of a crime. Running from the police doesn't make you a criminal, a verdict of guilty for resisting arrest does.
Yet it is possible to be only charged with "resisting arrest", meaning that it is effectively a crime to refuse to be arrested when you're not being charged with any crime.