EU's plan to put 'stopping' devices on cars

Mr.McLovin

http://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/eus-secret-plan-to-put-stopping-devices-on-cars-29963600.html

The European Union is secretly developing a "remote stopping" device that would be fitted to all cars and allow police to disable vehicles at the flick of a switch.

Confidential documents from a committee of senior EU police officers, who meet in secret, set out the plan as part of wider law enforcement surveillance and tracking measures.

"The project will work on a technological solution that can be a 'build-in standard' for all cars that enter the European market," said the document.

The devices, which could be in all new cars by the end of the decade, would be activated by a police officer working from a computer in a central control room. Once enabled, the suspect vehicle's fuel supply would be cut and the ignition switched off, bringing it to a halt.

The technology, scheduled for a six-year development timetable, is aimed at bringing dangerous high-speed car chases to an end and to make techniques such as spiking tyres redundant.

When I read this I immediately thought of the Twomey family from Cork who were the victims of a suicide/car crash in England and how this technology could have saved them maybe...

but then again could this technology be open to abuse or to failure resulting in worst carnage on a wider scale...

I might keep my old 99 D until I'm decided

ScumLord

They couldn't cut the ignition on a modern car, disconnecting the acceleration would be enough to bring the car to a safe halt but cutting the ignition turns the car into an unguided missile.

corkgsxr

It just wont happen. Only scaremongering

The Backwards Man

Every car I've ever been in has had a stopping device.

It's called a 'driver'.

Myrddin

'Confidential documents' from a 'secret meeting'? Seems legit

laugh

What a load of shite, there is absolutely no safe way to implement this. You have no way of knowing what the driver will do with the remaining potential energy and would have to take account of other road users and conditions.

SEPT 23 1989

law enforcement surveillance and tracking measures:rolleyes:

Why don't they just fit us with collars that electrocute us when we do anything wrong? we are sleepwalking into something really terrible

munchkin_utd

corkgsxr wrote: »

It just wont happen. Only scaremongering

the article is syndicated from the daily telegraph torygraph

thats says it all.

JJJJNR

Car hijackers will have a field day once it hits ebay.

GoodBridge

Within weeks of it's rollout, dx.com would be selling gizmos to trigger them.

jimboblep

Something like this was tried a few years back with automatic speed limiters for bikes but it was abandoned when it was shown to be unsafe
I would have reservations about this because of the computer controlled aspect of it no system is 100% secure and you will get people getting in and stopping cars for a "bit of a laugh