Eureka's progress in developing top-notch high-tech defense programs does not remain unnoticed. Recently, with projects entering testing phase, public interest gave a significant rise, covered in both the traditional media (TV and printed press) and the unofficial news sources (blogs and online news reports).
And long before this latest rash in dangerous pursuits, law enforcement
agencies have been searching for new tools and tactics — something
to allow cops to shut down a chase before anyone gets hurt.
Frank Buckley joins us live in a look at technology that might some day
turn that goal into reality.
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A two-second blast of microwave energy could stop a car in its tracks - and bring an end to Rosco P. Coltrane-style hot pursuits.
Dramatic high-speed car chases make for good television, but in reality they're awfully impractical. Later this summer the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department will test a safer, though equally electrifying, way to stop fugitive cars - with the blast of a microwave beam.
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March 1, 2005 — The idea of a powerful ray gun has been a staple of science-fiction writing for decades. But a "weapon" that shoots invisible beams of energy could be making its way into law-enforcement hands soon.
The technology isn't exactly something that would replace a police officer's handgun. In fact, the system being developed by Eureka Aerospace in Pasadena, Calif., couldn't even be crammed into a standard pistol holster.
February 7, 2005 — Cyrus Farivar, a technology writer for Wired News magazine, talks about Eureka's high-power microwave system development.
If a Los Angeles-area scientist has his way, car chases may become as antiquated as horse-mounted cavalry.
James Tatoian, chief executive of Eureka Aerospace in Pasadena, California, is developing a system that uses microwave energy to interfere with microchips inside cars. Once the chip is overloaded with excessive current, the car ceases to function, and will gradually decelerate on its own, he said.
Law enforcement may soon be able to “Nuke” your car and stop it wherever and whenever they need it stopped.
September 6, 2004 - TV helicopter crews, your glory days may be numbered. Police in the car-chase capital of the world are getting set to stop fugitives in their tracks .
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