Holy glue, Batman, that’s one sticky GPS mess

OnStar already utilizes this.

Taking control of a stolen car; OnStar upgrade gives car owners,


Chicago Sun-Times, Oct 12, 2007 by Tom Krisher

Say some clown steals your car from the parking deck at work. If it's equipped with General Motors' OnStar service, he could be in for a big surprise and you could get a little revenge -- and even see your car again.
Starting with about 20 models for 2009, the service will be able to slowly halt a car that is reported stolen, and the radio might even speak up and tell the thief to pull over because police are watching.
OnStar already finds 700 to 800 cars per month using the global positioning system. With the new technology, which OnStar President Chet Huber said GM will apply to the rest of its lineup in future years, OnStar would call police and tell them a stolen car's whereabouts.




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The main problem here is if they hit you with an EMP your car is toast (and anybody else near you when they set it off). The EMP would fry your car's electronics making it a no better than a large brick. So I don't think EMP would ever work in this role.

There was a movie Fast and Furious 2 (I think that's what movie it was anyway) where they shot a three prong projectile device from a helicopter to stop the car but same thing as the EMP it would completely fry the car's electronic system and make it a large brick. Pretty cool idea in the movie but if some idiot stole my car and the police made a brick out of it I'd be irked (and the police would be fixing my car!).

-Reby

 

Doesn't OnStar already have the capability of shutting down (or at least slowing down) the vehicles?

 

Just two posts above this question, we find this post: