Re: Police prepare stunning end for high-speed car chases

[snow <snow@smoke.suba.com>]

On Sat, 10 Aug 1996, Gary Howland wrote:
> Police prepare stunning end for high-speed car chases 
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     Could you please format your posts to 78 columns? It makes it difficult
to read on a standard terminal. 
>                                     BY GILES WHITTELL 
>                                     AND NIGEL HAWKES 
>          A high-powered electrical device under development at the Pentagon's Army Research
>          Laboratory in Adelphi, Maryland, is to be tested by police and border patrol agents and
>          even stop heart pacemakers. There is also the danger of loss of control when a car is
>          being driven at high speed. 
>          Counter-measures would include using old-fashioned engines with no electronics, or
>          perhaps surrounding the most delicate components with shielding. The best might be to
>          get hold of one of the stun guns and use it to disable pursuing police vehicles. 
> Original article at http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/Times/timnwsnws01022.html?1060389
> 	Will old fashioned engines be outlawed?
> 	Will the "stun guns" be outlawed?
> 	Will susceptible electronic systems become mandatory?
> 	(and if so, why not just put a remote control switch in all cars?)

    One word: Pacemakers.

Petro, Christopher C.
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snow@smoke.suba.com