UK police could get Ghostbusters-style backpack devices to halt ebike getaways
1–10 of 33 posts
Re: UK police could get Ghostbusters-style backpack devices to halt ebike getaways
#2Effect on pacemakers?
Re: UK police could get Ghostbusters-style backpack devices to halt ebike getaways
#3The first person hit by this gets a free pension..
Re: UK police could get Ghostbusters-style backpack devices to halt ebike getaways
#4> Police already have technology to stop cars remotely using radio and electromagnetic waves.
Never heard about this one. Anybody got a link, or even name?
Re: UK police could get Ghostbusters-style backpack devices to halt ebike getaways
#5Effect on pacemakers?
Hopefully none - human body is great at shielding things from EM radiation, and these things are already designed to be extremely resistant to external interferance for obvious reasons.
Re: UK police could get Ghostbusters-style backpack devices to halt ebike getaways
#6Considering how nimble e-bikes and e-scooters are, how will the UK police be able to properly catch, aim and target thieves while those heavy backpacks on? What's the chance they hit someone else with their EMP?
This feels like an Onion article or the UK police has too much money and free time on their hands instead of attacking the issue of petty crime from the source: poor education? shit jobs market (especially for migrants)? unaffordable living? etc
Re: UK police could get Ghostbusters-style backpack devices to halt ebike getaways
#7DC ("brushed") motors won't be affected by that, especially if controlled with no transistors. See for example how old DC-powered electric railway rolling stock was built, from pre-power electronics era.
Re: UK police could get Ghostbusters-style backpack devices to halt ebike getaways
#8[dead]
Re: UK police could get Ghostbusters-style backpack devices to halt ebike getaways
#9Considering how nimble e-bikes and e-scooters are, how will the UK police be able to properly catch, aim and target thieves while those heavy backpacks on? What's the chance they hit someone else with their EMP? This feels like an Onion article or the UK police has too much money and free time on their hands instead of attacking the issue of petty crime from the source: poor education? shit jobs market (especially fo…
[dead]
Re: UK police could get Ghostbusters-style backpack devices to halt ebike getaways
#10DC ("brushed") motors won't be affected by that, especially if controlled with no transistors. See for example how old DC-powered electric railway rolling stock was built, from pre-power electronics era.
Brushless motors have been the norm in e-bikes and e-scooters for a long time. And even modern brushed electric motors in EVs have electronic control via microcontrollers. There's no way you can get maximum power efficiency out of it without software control.