Ignition zapper!!!

Yeah... brilliant. Kill the ignition / engine, and the driver loses power steering and brakes. In today's 2-ton++ cars, that's a recipe for big problems.

No thanks. Big brother is not welcome here.

Mike

 

+1 good point. Also sure you are talking having all guns serial numbered but how long do you think hackers will take to figure them out and produce their own that would work. I see this being a bigger problem to law abiding people then it would protect.

 

Yeah... let's penalize / punish everyone in the name of protecting ourselves from a VERY few deviants.

RF tags to track my car's movement? No thanks. I'll take that tag out of my car and attach it to an armadillo or racoon. Let the feds track the critters instead! Or maybe just flush it down the toilet.

Mike

PS... A good bumper sticker I saw recently said: "If guns kill people, then spoons made Rosie O'Donnell fat."

 

This thread may need to get moved to the P & R Section.

to Answer your question No I wouldn't like the idea that I am being tracked everytime I start my vehicle. I don't want big brother crawling all over me with a microscope. The above idea is the most asinine idea I have heard of for a while.

 

I really want some of the drugs you are on.... not.

Yeah, let's turn us into a complete communistic state where EVERY move we make is monitored by the gov't.

If there is a nut in a car, and it's warranted that it needs to be stopped, it's simple - SHOOT IT.
I'd rather zap certain folks in the ACLU which sue any gov't entity for 'wrongful dhhd;h;dhah;db (whatever)' at the drop of a hat.

 

Horsie I think the TinFoil hat is too tight

Too LAte Tech beyond via a Tazer like thing that can be shot at a car from another car Overloading electrical and the car stops

 

True why the need or interest in enabling Big brother any more.

 

New breed of cop requires a new breed of criminal.

Like all things, they'll bypass it in some way or another

 

I would think an adaptive speed limiter would be more feasible, limit's car to the speed limit of the road you are driving on.

On the note of people bypassing these things, of course it will happen no matter what. But most people won't be bothered enough to go and bypass them so it will work for the majority.

 

exactly what i was thinking

 

that idea is all fun and dandy until someone makes a mistake and stops the wrong car, or does it in the middle of traffic and you have yourselves the traffic jam from hell. i'm sorry, but there are lines in this age and day, and i think this idea may cross that one.

 

Disagree. Such a thing would be tremendously dangerous. I think many here would agree that more often, I have escaped serious crashes by hitting the throttle rather than the brakes. Hitting the brakes would have potentially KILLED me. If I'm on a 55 mph road and doing 55 mph, I don't want my only option to be braking.

Taking control of the car away from the driver will hurt far more people than the number of criminals it may rein in.

Mike

 

I was talking about the additional suggestion of putting in speed governors that are synchronized with the limit of the road being driven. In other words, he was suggesting that if you're on a 45 mph limit road, your car would be speed limited to 45 mph.

My point was that such a device would be very dangerous. I would say that the throttle has saved me from being smashed by another driver more times than the brakes. Imagine you're about to be t-boned and you nail the throttle to get away and have "big brother" say, "NO. You can't do that." CRASH!

Mike