[Noisebridge-discuss] stop a car remotely, win $200-500k (HERF gun time?)

Joel Jaeggli joelja at bogus.com
Sat Sep 4 17:52:06 UTC 2010


It'a actually aimed at medium duty vehicles

"Medium-sized vehicles:  (10,300-60,000 lbs Gross Vehicle Weight Rating
(GVWR)) This range covers commercial delivery vans to large semi-trailer
trucks hauling water and fuel."

so if you're headed for electronics failure (in modern vehicles) it's a
diesel ecu burried in a rather large truck you've got to whack.

I would suspect given the ditances involved (500-100m) that most
sucessful solutions will involve mechanical entanglement.

http://www.qinetiq.com/home/products/x-net_r__vehicle_arresting.html

for example of something of proximate approach

> I'm thinking that a directed E/M weapon might do it to interrupt
> engine timing circuitry or engine control electronics.  You'd need a
> heck of a power source, and a very good way to focus the beam.  But
> hey, that's just an engineering detail right?

"optionally and additionally, it can be powered externally using 120 VAC
or 12 or 24VDC power up to 150KW."

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_weapon
> 
> Here's a fun video, a very crude version of the idea:
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoOT2_Z-GIE
> 
> It's probably non-ionizing radiation, but I still wouldn't want to
> be near it. ;-)
> 
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