{"id":9995,"date":"2013-11-02T09:00:09","date_gmt":"2013-11-02T13:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=9995"},"modified":"2013-11-03T17:34:32","modified_gmt":"2013-11-03T22:34:32","slug":"the-end-of-the-car-chase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/the-end-of-the-car-chase\/","title":{"rendered":"The End Of The Car Chase?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/110213_0836_TheEndOfThe1.jpg\" width=\"641\" height=\"427\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to recent technological breakthroughs high-speed car chases may be a thing of the past writes Mike Riggs:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>StarChase allows cops to fire a specialized gun that launches miniature GPS modules that stick onto another vehicle.<\/li>\n<li>Instead of chasing a car that&#8217;s breaking the law, the office could just launch the projectile at the car, and then abandon the chase \u2013 and track their location.<\/li>\n<li>Suspects normally slow down once they realize they aren&#8217;t being tailed and since high-speed chases are dangerous for pedestrians and other vehicles the device ensures a safer end to encounters with rogue drivers.<\/li>\n<li>The system is pricey. The &#8216;gun&#8217; costs $5,000 and the non-reusable GPS &#8220;bullets&#8221; cost $500 a pop.<\/li>\n<li>In one test only 25% of the projectiles successfully stuck onto another car meaning that preventing just one chase could cost several thousand dollars.<\/li>\n<li>However when compared to the costs of damages that high-speed chases normally result in, the system is still a bargain.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read about the constitutional questions about the system, what the makers of the device have to say, what the FBI thinks, and where the system is being trialed over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlanticcities.com\/technology\/2013\/10\/end-car-chases\/7425\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlanticcities.com\/technology\/2013\/10\/end-car-chases\/7425\/\">The Atlantic<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to recent technological breakthroughs high-speed car chases may be a thing of the past writes Mike Riggs: StarChase allows cops to fire a specialized gun that launches miniature GPS modules that stick onto another vehicle. Instead of chasing a car that&#8217;s breaking the law, the office could just launch the projectile at the car, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/110213_0836_TheEndOfThe1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9995"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9998,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9995\/revisions\/9998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}