It's getting difficult for me to keep arguing for EU membership...

[DodgyAgent]

...when news like this comes out.

EU has secret plan for police to 'remote stop' cars - Telegraph



Of course David, you're right, but there's worse. Switching the ignition off in a car that's going at motorway speed is absolutely lethal, in fact it's murderously stupid because the braking systems, the power steering and in many cars the adaptive suspension need the ignition turned on to keep the car under control.

Meanwhile;



So actually it's not just 'the EU'; it's a bunch of psychopaths in the British government and police too.

This all makes the argument for driving older cars even stronger.

Should boost my second hand car business. Bring it on

[vetran]

the point I was trying to make was the target market will just sidestep this by having their car modified, it might be of use with car thieves but I doubt it will be worth the danger of malfunction/inadvertent operation.

[DodgyAgent]

It would be pretty straight forward to remotely invoke limp home mode in modern fuel injected willies



Whether or not it is a good idea is another matter

Just imagine if our wives and girlfriends had this technology to control us

[minestrone]

it will be like handguns, our Olympics team will train in France and our SAS soldiers be prosecuted for having a handgun while the criminals will have their cars modified and the Police will race round 140mph collecting their curry without being sanctioned.

Add that to the obvious stupidity of switching the car off at speed and it will be fun.

Jesus wept, did you actually believe that sob story?

[Mich the Tester]

the point I was trying to make was the target market will just sidestep this by having their car modified, it might be of use with car thieves but I doubt it will be worth the danger of malfunction/inadvertent operation.

You're right.

[darmstadt]

Ah, I believe this was the ENLETS (European Network of Law Enforcement Technology Services) bollocks I was reading about last year and, yes, the theme has come up before. I can't be bothered searching all the relevant facts but I'll point out at the last conference there were 5 key points to work on until 2015 which were made by 3 countries, Great Britain, Netherlands and Romania which were:

- Automatic Number Plate Recognition
- Open Source Intelligence: basically information on the 'net' should be monitored and as an information source to be used and for the investigations to be carried out over the 'net'
- Signal Intelligence: More and more data is collected and must be evaluated. Better IT systems must be developed to cope with the flood of data and to process and evaluate it
- Surveillance: find and use the best CCTV systems
- Front Line Policing: developement of technology to stop vehicles (this is what is referred to in the article) (*)

Quite funny there is not mention of other EU working groups like CARPOL or CEPOL though which would help you or even Directive 2011/82. Still never mind, any newspaper starting with 'Daily' hates Europe and anything to wind up the masses is fair game :-)







(* personally I think its bloody stupid and will never get off the ground)

[Mich the Tester]

Should boost my second hand car business. Bring it on

Old jags by any chance?

[xoggoth]

They do it Bait Car. Brill prog.

[Platypus]

and the Police will race round 140mph collecting their curry without being sanctioned.

Business As Usual.

I fscking hate 'em

[Mich the Tester]

Business As Usual.

I fscking hate 'em

I hope you're not from Brazil.