On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 20:00:43 +0100, MM wrote:
>On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 09:39:59 +0100, "Steve Walker"
> wrote:
>
>>MM wrote:
>>
>>> Well, how about equipping every vehicle with a police emergency
>>> circuit? Modern cars have engine management systems and the technology
>>> to remotely switch off the fuel supply is something sixth-formers
>>> could work out in half-an-hour with their science teacher. All you'd
>>> need to do is use only a helicopter in future pursuits, then send a
>>> Garmin- or TomTom-type instruction code to the pursued vehicle.
>>
>>That will inevitably come, but the technology isn't ready yet.
>
>Of COURSE it is! The technology is here already to place a cruise
>missile over hundreds of miles right on top of a bunker, even a
>vehicle. Simply triggering a circuit in a car's EMS remotely is
>trivial in the extreme.
>
Then it would be trivial to bypass and even more trivial to emulate
allowing for criminals to disable a vehicle whenever convenient for
mugging.
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