On Sat, 10 Aug 1996, Duncan Frissell wrote:
Time to fire up the '57 Chevy.
A high-powered electrical device under development at the
Pentagon's Army Research
Actually people have done this before, using amplified radar guns to fry the electronics in newer cars. That's why I've always favored pre '70s vehicles. You can work on em, and they can't be shot from under you with new hi-tech weapons. I wonder what will happen in the insurance industry when cops start using these devices to stop car thieves. They'll recover the car but it will require a whole new brain (and who knows what else). I'm suprised that the Clinton administraion hasn't called for a car-escrow system whereby duly authorized law enforcement officials (with the permission of a Judge od course) can send a signal to your car's computer to make it shut off (or slow down or whatever). Brian ------- <blane@aa.net> -------------------- <http://www.aa.net/~blane> ------- Embedded Systems Programmer, EET Student, Interactive Fiction author (RSN!) ============== 11 99 3D DB 63 4D 0B 22 15 DC 5A 12 71 DE EE 36 ============