Starchase GPS Tagging System

Starchase GPS Tagging System
Nov-02-13
The Starchase lets police tag a car from a distance with a GPS device, allowing them to track a suspect without needing to resort to a dangerous car chase.

Currently being tested by police departments, the StarChase system features a compressed-air cannon loaded with adhesive GPS devices and mounted on the front of the police car. When an officer needs to follow a fleeing suspect, the cannon can be triggered to fire a small GPS module, which will stick to the rear of the car and allow dispatch to track the vehicle. The officer can then break off from the pursuit.

According to FBI studies, once suspects realize they are not being chased, they tend to slow down. The tracking device would let officers continue to follow the suspect, but from a greater distance and without instigating a high-speed chase.

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Every car in America made after 1940 has a battery connected to the chassis of the car. If a police cruiser had a large positive charge on the front bumper, wouldn't contact with a car cause disruption of the car's electronics, fuses, and/or battery? This GPS system costs $250 each time it's fired. A car-prod would be "free" and could stop a car right there.
Posted by Scott Lilly on November 22, 2013
With ref. to comment of Scott Lilly, I would like to point out that, if the F.B.I. is chasing the car to find who goes where and to contact whom. The method shown by you may not be desirable and the Tagging system will be useful and also their must be maximum distance from which only car-prod would be useful, but while the chase starts the distance between the car to be chased may be more than the max. limit in which the car-prod works.
Posted by jayant warke on November 27, 2013

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