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摘要

During the 1980s, drivers of Mercedes-Benz cars with anti-lock brakes (ABS) reported that their brakes were failing on a section of autobahn in the Saarland region of Germany. The problem, caused by electromagnetic interference (EMI) from a nearby radio transmitter, was solved by putting up a giant wire mesh by the side of the road to shield traffic from its radio transmissions.rnEver since, there has been a plethora of court cases claiming that EMI has caused cars' electronic systems to malfunction - and in some cases that cars have crashed as a result.