09-15-2015, 02:54 PM
(09-15-2015, 12:29 PM)SteelCitySouth Wrote: I don't know why they don't just shoot their tires out...or their knees.Grenades..... yeah.....grenades.
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(09-15-2015, 01:54 PM)Au165 Wrote: The idea is flawed in itself, which many people are now starting to see. I'll explain a couple of the issues, so you can start seeing the complexity of the situation.
This tracking device has to be small enough to shoot yet big enough to posses the technology to track the vehicle. While the chip for tracking could be small, the power supply would not be. The issue is some of these pursuits can go on for long periods of time ,and if you have truly committed to not attempting to stop them, then you must assume they can go a full tank of gas before they stop. With that assumption you'd need to be able to power this GPS (Which by the way magically turns on only when fired) for up to 4 hours conservatively. In order to accomplish this you're talking about a power supply of decent size and weight, think maybe half the size of a triple A battery.
Now we have this tracking device how do we fire it? Its weight creates a challenge as you need enough force to launch it at a speed that we could actually hit a moving car going 70+ MPH, yet not so fast as to smash it into pieces when it hits. Anyone who has ever shot a gun knows it is hard to hit a moving target, now imagine shooting at something going 100MPH. Compressed air is out as it won't generate the speeds in any sort of mobile setup to be viable, which means we probably have to use some sort of combustion deployment setup. Congrats, you have no just created a bullet. This is where the idea falls apart in most cases ,as once you take the devices weight and the speed at which it would have to travel to hit a moving vehicle into consideration you have basically created bullet. Now imagine you have cops shooting bullets at moving vehicles and think about everything that can go wrong in this scenario.
The current version of this tries to launch larger GPS beacons (overcoming power supply issue) from a car mounted (Over come portable compressed air issue) while pursuing. The thing falls apart in that to deploy you must engage in the pursuit and often times the beacon misses because compressed air can give different results each use, and also because the beacons sometimes don't take based on the contours of various cars. The systems are very expensive and put officers in danger because to deploy they often times have to get much closer than they other wise would in a normal pursuit (minus during a pit maneuver, which is becoming obsolete).
There are many other issues with the "shoot GPS tracker on car" idea but those are just a couple of the issues that make it unlikely to ever be a widely used process. There are some different ideas for preventing, and stopping pursuit,s being worked on but most are still a little ways away.
What ever happened with the EMP device that was tethered to the pursuit vehicle and shot out to go under the perpetrator's vehicle ?
I'm sure road conditions would have to be perfect for it to work, but I hadn't heard anything on it for a while.
