The Police New Weapon: EMP

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How to stop a car in which the driver refuses to obey police?. The latest is an electromagnetic gun.


Research at the EMP has been going on for decades in various military programs, but still nothing has come out to any civilian use. This until Eureka Aerospcae began working on a police toy. The company calls this HPEMS (High Powered Electromagnetic System) program of the Popular Science demonstrates how tough it will be for criminals to avoid police in the future.

Whit HPEMS the police can stop a vehicle without having to get into car chases. The technology is capable of sending away a shockwave sufficient to work up to 200 meters (656.168 feet).
Now it would probably only fit in an helicopter, but the inventor is confident that within a few years will HPEMS to appear in "Gun-size".

 

[TimeLord]

Wooo now we just need floating ships and we are ready to fight the machines

 

[Premonition]

Dumbest, idea, ever. Fine, let's give em the EMP guns. And now let's wait for the bad guys to get their hands on it. Let's just sit and see what happens.

 

[tmujir955]

Won't work.

The car will lose control and potentially kill the driver and others.

 

[Vigilantis]

Looks good but not something you're going to want to use in a high speed chase. Also, what else does it shut off? Will it cause damage to electronics around or near the said car, and does it completely kill the car or is it just a temporary shut off.

 

[FranzTyphid]

This could be AWSOME

 

[Katherine Kerensky]

Some how I think it will have it's uses...
It would be useful in some situations at least.
And I'd be glad of it being used to stop chases.
What happens if it hits a motorcycle though? :|

 

[TheNamlessGuy]

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[Ultracake]

SCENARIO:

The stolen car has a hostage in it, An old man with a pacemaker that he needs to live.

EMP is used, Aside from the fact it could very well cause the car to crash. It would break the mans pacemaker. Probably causing it to flip out and give him a heart attack.

I can also see a police officer missing a car and hitting my house with his EMP

Bam, Broken, useless computers. more likely than not beyond repair.

I musts protect my data... i musts.. it commands me i musts..

 

[PxDn Ninja]

Looks good but not something you're going to want to use in a high speed chase. Also, what else does it shut off? Will it cause damage to electronics around or near the said car, and does it completely kill the car or is it just a temporary shut off.

It causes an overload in the processor, burning it out. Should kill the car until the computer and probably BCU get replaced.

Won't work.

The car will lose control and potentially kill the driver and others.

Not entirely true. When the processor system goes out, the car will lose it's power steering, making it very hard to for the crook to do anything but go straight ahead, and as the breaks won't lock up instantly (car will coast to a stop), he won't slam them down and do any sharp turns.

That being said, the power breaks (and ABS) system will go out, so this can't safely be employed on icy roads as the brakes will go from slow engagement to full on lock if the person puts all their force behind stopping the car.

 

[Khujager]

Well most General Motors cars with Onstar can be remotely shut off by GM if the police request it. Which is why I don't drive a GM car, that shit scares me. Also I'm broke as shit and couldn't afford a new car anyway, but still.

On another note, I work in the auto industry, currently in the used car market and some of the dealers I work for have a small electronic gps chip that goes on the cars computer. They can remotely shut off the car (while not running) if people don't make their payments. It's so funny when they dodge calls from the dealer for weeks and then call back about 30 seconds after you shut off their car.

Solution? Buy an old car with a carburetor and no computer controlled anything.

 

[Wilbot666]

Looks dangerous to me. Even if you kill a vehicle's electronics it won't arrest it's momentum.
And if it did hit a motor cycle... well does the term badly-guided missile give you a nice splattery mental image?

 

[MR T3D]

so this is like that shit in 2fast 2furious.
huh, this long to announce it for real.
still, i want to know how they expect they can prevent collateral damage with it, until proven 100% accurate/ directed to target, i won't trust it. if ever

 

[Shoes]

SCENARIO:

The stolen car has a hostage in it, An old man with a pacemaker that he needs to live.

EMP is used, Aside from the fact it could very well cause the car to crash. It would break the mans pacemaker. Probably causing it to flip out and give him a heart attack.

I can also see a police officer missing a car and hitting my house with his EMP

Bam, Broken, useless computers. more likely than not beyond repair.

I musts protect my data... i musts.. it commands me i musts..

That would be the biggest PR disaster mankind has ever witnessed.....

 

[HarmanSmith]

EUREKA Aerospace? I KNEW IT WAS REAL!

Nerd joke aside, what's the gun's area of effect? At the wrong angles and altitudes you could hit much more than what you're aiming for.

 

[FactualSquirrel]

This is a great idea!

Let the car fly around after running at 100Km/hours on the highway!
AWESOME!

I think the point is to stop it before then, so that it can't do that.

 

[Ultracake]

EUREKA Aerospace? I KNEW IT WAS REAL!

Nerd joke aside, what's the gun's area of effect? At the wrong angles and altitudes you could hit much more than what you're aiming for.

Like my computers.

 

[TheNamlessGuy]

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