http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/ Engadget Comments for Microwave beam car stopper tested, fries cars in nanoseconds flat http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/
what if you use an older car that doesnt have a computer (or it just has a crappy computer)?

and.... it sucks if you have a pacemaker.
PREPARE TO DIE!]]>Dec 5th 2007 9:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/
... the transporter]]>Dec 5th 2007 7:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/Dec 5th 2007 9:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/
I will not go in to detail on how to make one, because the general public really does not need to know.]]>Dec 5th 2007 2:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/
And, older cars without electronic components still aren't affected. I see a surge in sales of vintage/used cars.]]>Dec 5th 2007 7:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/
1. Don't run from the cops.
2. Get out of Mom's basement and hit the gym. Moving cars without power-steering aren't that hard to control.
3. If the car is in the clear, take out the driver with deadly force. If some loon was waiving a deadly weapon in a mall, they'd take him out, yet cars kill more people than guns.]]>Dec 5th 2007 9:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/
http://auto.howstuffworks.com/steering4.htm]]>Dec 5th 2007 9:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/
Neither cars nor guns kill people. That's the problem with your thinking. They have no thought, they can't control themselves, and if you take a gun/car away from a killer, they will simply find another tool. This is why I have a problem with gun control laws, etc. Do you plan on outlawing anything that can be used as a weapon? When will you take away the baseball bat from Little Billy because someone used a similar model to kill 20 people at school?]]>Dec 5th 2007 10:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/Dec 5th 2007 11:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/Dec 5th 2007 11:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/
Think long and hard about this for a few seconds - you'll figure it out eventually.]]>Dec 5th 2007 12:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/
If you are the kind of idiot that believes Michael Moore and everything your college professors tell you, then I do hope you change your citizenship and move away. The less idiocy we have from lazy socialists like you, the better off the rest of us hard-working, intelligent people will be.]]>Dec 5th 2007 1:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/]]>Dec 5th 2007 1:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/Dec 5th 2007 3:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/
I love how being called a Socialist is supposed to be an insult. I'm going to bet you're going to collect social security when you get old. Do you know what that is? It's Socialism. And the subsidies the federal government gives to businesses? Socialism again. Oh, and when the Fed bails people out of the shitty housing market, that too is Socialism.

So please, in the future, try being a realist, instead of just a jackass.]]>Dec 5th 2007 4:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/ Yea, but think how much more fun it would be to do the Carmageddon thing AND an AK47 at the same time.

Seriously people, get your heads out of your arses. Guns are instruments. Murders will kill one way or another. And people argue about assault rifles needing to be outlawed... how many gas stations get robbed by a man wielding a $3000 rifle? None. People who rob gas stations have a $100 pistol. Even if you took money out of the equation, a thief isn't going to walk the streets with an M4 over his shoulder.

Gun control is just another useless emo debate, like stem cells and flag burning.

Either outlaw guns (Ha ha! Try disarming this redneck nation... you though the prohibition was tough to enforce) or leave law abiding citizens alone!]]>Dec 5th 2007 8:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/
As for shielding, not only can microwaves be shielded, but inverse doppler effects are now possible with something called metamaterials, and they have been tested with microwaves. Further, solid shells have been designed to allow microwaves to flow AROUND a contained volume/object. Better than shielding - waveband invisibility.

Photos indicating what sample metamaterials look like have been made public but the scale and geometry of wires is an important detail, tailored to the wave-length. incomplete loops within more incomplete loops - like a C with a backwards c inside of it; square versions of that; single rods; sheets of these beside each other,layered upon each other, each cell in a sheet having the double-c or rod configuration.

My understanding is it's like an induction coil except it would be more than one induction and the light itself/photon/wave would induce, then a reflected induction from the arrangement/array would remarkably do things no normal material would do with light waves. I don't even know if such a thing can be over-heated or somehow ruined if only the expected band/frequency width is used on the meta-material. Don't expect a LOT more to be public now about it - what was public I'm sure is just to impress people with money, get their attention from afar, and now that period of time has passed.]]>Dec 6th 2007 12:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/
There are still places in Europe where you can buy brand-new diesels without any electronics but the lights, radio, and wipers. Some of them might even be capable of winning a high-speed chase... for certain values of high.]]>Dec 11th 2007 1:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/
chase + microwave + loss of control + crash - airbag deployment = multimillion dollar settlement.

These guys are just throwing there money away researching something that will never be used.]]>Dec 5th 2007 10:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/Dec 5th 2007 8:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/Dec 5th 2007 9:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/Dec 5th 2007 9:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/
oh btw how fast could this wipe a ssd? oh oh maybe 50ns w00t to being safe...someday....]]>Dec 5th 2007 10:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/
from howstuffworks:
"The sensor is the device that tells the bag to inflate...A mechanical switch is flipped when there is a mass shift that closes an electrical contact, telling the sensors that a crash has occurred."

That said, the microwave might fry the sensor(s), but I think that's less than likely.]]>Dec 5th 2007 2:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/
As for the power steering argument, steering is POWER ASSISTED. You can still steer without it, it is only a lot harder. The brakes still work though, so if the idiot wipes out, then it's Darwinism at work.

The only real perceptible downside to this technology - no more special car-chase episodes of 'Cops'.]]>Dec 5th 2007 7:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/Dec 5th 2007 9:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/]]>Dec 5th 2007 11:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/
Also, in high speed situations, it is best to slowly turn the steering wheel rather than make quick movements on the steering wheel. So even if the lack of power steering slowed you down, it'd be for the best.]]>Dec 5th 2007 12:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/
I see this taking a similar path.]]>Dec 5th 2007 12:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/
It's unclear whether this technique will also interfere with the traditional coil, condensor, points, distributor and spark plug wires of older cars. It would definitely fry your alternator/generator, wiper and heater motors, and electric lights and radio.

That's why a hybrid with a mechanically engaged flywheel will become the getaway car of the next Dillinger.]]>Dec 5th 2007 7:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/Derka derka, Mohammed Jihad
]]>Dec 5th 2007 10:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/Dec 5th 2007 10:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/I think it was a joke.]]>Dec 5th 2007 10:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/
Whooshhhhhhhhhhh.]]>Dec 5th 2007 12:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/Dec 5th 2007 7:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/Dec 5th 2007 3:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/Dec 5th 2007 4:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/

- TECH GUN GOES PEW PEW PEW HAR HAR I DISABLED YOUR AUTOS

-What happened there officer Leeroy?

- He was threatening the very safety of our citizens sir.]]>Dec 5th 2007 7:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/Dec 5th 2007 7:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/-----
Future Converged]]>Dec 5th 2007 7:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/Dec 5th 2007 8:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/Dec 5th 2007 8:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/Dec 5th 2007 8:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/Does this fry medical equipment?]]>Dec 5th 2007 10:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/Dec 5th 2007 8:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/Dec 5th 2007 10:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/
If you're one of those idiots who think things like tazers are bad because of a few bad incidents, well think about this: If, every time a tazer was used, it was replaced by a real gun and the suspect was shot, tell me how high the kill rate would be then.]]>Dec 5th 2007 1:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/
Wait for it...

THEY'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO KILL ANYONE.]]>Dec 7th 2007 7:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/Dec 5th 2007 8:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/microwave-beam-car-stopper-tested-fries-cars-in-nanoseconds-fla/
"The higher the frequency of the radiation, the more directed the beam, which allows the user to aim the energy at vulnerable car parts, such as light bulb filaments, lug nuts, frame bolts, or windshield antenna.

Having access to these locations is crucial because newer cars are made with lots of plastic parts, have rustproof paint that prevents electricity from conducting, and have computers already designed to withstand the electromagnetic energy coming from the car engine. "

So basically they have to hit a small vulnerable part of the car using this large device during a car chase. This doesn't sound easy exactly, with some cars being mostly plastic now. How do they aim it? What is the beam width?]]>Dec 5th 2007 8:35AM