Wireless control techniques will cut accidents on the road and in the air - but can connected vehicles be safe from hackers? FOR POLICE trying to stop offenders in stolen cars the weapon of choice has become the 'stinger' - a simple chain of spikes designed to blow out the tyres of the oncoming vehicles. But they take time to deploy and lead to risks for the police stretching them across the road. In the attempt to avoid a stinger spread across half of the road in a high-speed chase, a teenage vehicle thief mowed down Merseyside police constable Dave Phillips in October 2015.
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