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Tagging Devices To Aid In Car Chases

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the car-57-where-are-you dept.

kthejoker writes "ABC News is reporting that a company called StarChase has invented a device that will allow police teams to 'tag' cars involved in dangerous chases. The device is the size of a golf ball, can be launched via an air-powered shooter attached to police vehicles, and uses a "highly efficient" glue to stick to cars. From there, it transmits its GPS position to a central monitoring station."

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  1. Ok... by PunkOfLinux · · Score: -1, Troll

    Why can't they just keep up with the car to begin with?

    I mean, it's a cool idea and all, but chance are the cost makes it very impractical. Besides, why should the police get all the fun toys?

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  2. But the media keeps telling us Islam means peace by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Ahhh, Islam never fails to show its true face. Remember, these are the same guys who make their wives cover themselves completely and walk behind them in public, and think that you can stop a woman from committing adultery by surgically removing her clitoris. Barbarians indeed.

  3. When the Legal Deparment Finally Loses? by derrickh · · Score: 0, Troll

    But what happens when the legal department loses it's first case? Here's a likely situation. The government decides it needs protect us by listening you talk to your friends in your car. You know, just in case you're a terrorist. And since the GPS is always on, why not have your car's location get tagged whenever certain 'key phrases' are overheard. Of course, this will have to be done without alerting the driver or passengers that they're being listened to and tracked, otherwise the terrorists will never talk openly. While we're at it, better make this tech mandatory...i mean 'standard' on all new vehicles.

    It's already being done on phone calls, this would be the next logical step.

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  4. Re:Why Only Police? by smoker2 · · Score: 0, Troll
    Your driving down the motorway/freeway minding your own business, driving carefully at around the speedlimit and some speed freak comes tearing past and undertakes you.
    For them to undertake you, you must be in the wrong lane.
    Keep Left (UK), Keep Right (US)

    You take out your Tag rifle and aim it at the car in front.
    The device is fixed to the vehicle.

    Lean out of the window and take aim, but whilst you are doing this you swerve and take out 3 cyclists also minding their own business.
    Cyclists are not permitted on the Motorway (UK), I'm not sure about the US regulations. They certainly won't be in the outside lane.

    Anything else you want to clear up ?

  5. High speed chases fill a need by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    The question is, are the police really interested in curtailing high speed chases...

    There certainly seems to be a percentage of the police that quite enjoy the high speed chase. For all kinds of reasons, including the adrenaline rush, the obvious feel of power and so on. Even better, they get to justify this by saying that the pursued person(s) are clearly a grave danger to all and sundry, so criticism is clearly unwarranted.

    Add to that the fact that (in major cities anyway) the local tv stations also quite love high speed chases and that the police clearly love the publicity they get from them and it seems more than likely that high speed chases are in the interest of several influential segments of society.

    I doubt that even such technology as described will lessen the number of such chases.