Thread: Post TDI Land Rovers HALT!

Originally Posted by manic

BBC News - RF Safe-Stop shuts down car engines with radio pulse

Makes you wonder what the cops will need to drive when the robbers start using this tech in get-away landrovers

Just goes to show, nothing stops an old Land Rover, now all we have to do is make sure the Taliban/el Queerda update to modern vehicles, the only thing they will be blowing up is themselves, Bob

We had a problem with BMW motorcycles that we sold to the police.
Every time they hit "transmit" the engine stopped.
We fixed it by shielding the ignition box in a steel box/faraday cage.
So if a crook was smart enough he could build a Faraday cage around his car anyway.
The other thing is that if you retrofitted electronic igntion to your old Land rover it would still stop.
Regards Philip A

Next time there's a massive solar storm, all the electrickery can stop at once, including this EMR (RF) Pulse Gun. I thought these things already existed as non-lethal weapons in the US arsenal.

As an aside, when Toyota were having brake problems with heaps of recalls a few years ago, they approached NASA for solar flare date, suspecting that solar EMR might have interfered with their brake computers - no such cop out however, in their case.

I would not think this would stop a D3/RRS. At the end of 2011 I had a lightning touchdown 3 feet from the bonnet of my car that blew a post up and scratched the car and its electronics stayed intact. The Scangauge that was plugged in did not survive but all the car systems did. Likewise a number of items in the house did not survive either.

A bolt from the heavens will be a lot stronger than this device and have a much wider bandwidth.

In some overseas jurisdictions a device has to be fitted to cars that when it receives a certain signal the engine does stop.