Every new car in Europe may be fitted with a police-controlled kill switch

[gevorg]

Safely disabling a vehicle being involved in a criminal exercise is a dangerous task, which may be why the EU is hoping to create a vehicle standard that makes it possible to stop them remotely.
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Guilty until proven innocent. A perfect mentality for police state. I wonder how long will it take for "criminals" to figure out a way to disable the kill switch, just like with speed limiters.

 

[bradly1101]

Damn! That'd kill the best thing on TV!

 

[WelshBloke]

Guilty until proven innocent. A perfect mentality for police state. I wonder how long will it take for "criminals" to figure out a way to disable the kill switch, just like with speed limiters.

That article is terrible.

 

[Venix]

Criminals will just ditch their disabled vehicles and flee on foot. We need a common sense solution like surgically implanted, remote controlled electroshock devices that will allow the police to immobilize anyone at any time.

 

[Exterous]

Damn! That'd kill the best thing on TV!

What are you talking about? They will just use a screwdriver to build a custom GUI to hack and disable the kill switch. Using reverse modularity wifi on the Ka band and switching the red cable with the green cable they will be able to modify said kill switch to remotely explode the gas tanks in all the chase cars except the one carrying the main hero\bad guy who has an odd affinity for vintage sports\muscle cars

 

[Genx87]

Next up a bypass to their door locks. Just in case the police need to come in and search your house.

 

[nehalem256]

Guilty until proven innocent. A perfect mentality for police state. I wonder how long will it take for "criminals" to figure out a way to disable the kill switch, just like with speed limiters.

Like by buying an older car?

 

[Fern]

Guilty until proven innocent. A perfect mentality for police state. I wonder how long will it take for "criminals" to figure out a way to disable the kill switch, just like with speed limiters.

I wonder how long it would take for criminals to figure out how to use this to their advantage. Imagine some woman driving down the road at night and criminals using their kill switch to disable her car.....

Fern

 

[PokerGuy]

I wonder how long it would take for criminals to figure out how to use this to their advantage. Imagine some woman driving down the road at night and criminals using their kill switch to disable her car.....

Fern

So much this. The whole "kill switch technology in every car" is a terrible idea with so many possible bad outcomes it's not even funny. I'm sure it's the wet dream of bureaucratic fascists everywhere though.

 

[gevorg]

I wonder how long it would take for criminals to figure out how to use this to their advantage. Imagine some woman driving down the road at night and criminals using their kill switch to disable her car.....

Fern

Oh yeah, the hackers will have a field day with this.

 

[waggy]

Oh yeah, the hackers will have a field day with this.

yeah and i don't think it will take long for something major to happen.

 

[JManInPhoenix]

We need a common sense solution like surgically implanted, remote controlled electroshock devices that will allow the police to immobilize anyone at any time.

Now that would be entertaining to watch on tv :biggrin: