Re: Well, this will help the motorcycle image in Toronto!
Unlikely to happen. They would have to be able to pick out an individual vehicle out of a crowd, without knowing how to specifically identify it (e.g. by VIN, and taking into account that any license plate, if mounted, would be wrong), and get only THAT one to stop. It's easy with a bait vehicle because it's the only one with the receiver. It's easy with OnStar in the case of a stolen vehicle because generally it's the owner who has called in that their vehicle is stolen and they can easily track down the appropriate exact vehicle. Lasers etc require a specific receiver on the vehicle. Any error on the part of the police which results in some other vehicle stopping in a circumstance where that causes a problem (e.g. an innocent person innocently attempting to make a left turn which would be easily completed provided that the engine keeps running ... except that the engine quits mid-turn resulting in the inability to get out of the way of the oncoming transport truck which can't stop in time) ... and there will be lawsuits. Big ones.
There's no such thing as "fail safe". There's also no such thing as "can't be disabled". If such a thing were mandated to be installed, I would get it disabled on principle, even though I have no intent of doing something that would warrant its use ...
Unlikely to happen. They would have to be able to pick out an individual vehicle out of a crowd, without knowing how to specifically identify it (e.g. by VIN, and taking into account that any license plate, if mounted, would be wrong), and get only THAT one to stop. It's easy with a bait vehicle because it's the only one with the receiver. It's easy with OnStar in the case of a stolen vehicle because generally it's the owner who has called in that their vehicle is stolen and they can easily track down the appropriate exact vehicle. Lasers etc require a specific receiver on the vehicle. Any error on the part of the police which results in some other vehicle stopping in a circumstance where that causes a problem (e.g. an innocent person innocently attempting to make a left turn which would be easily completed provided that the engine keeps running ... except that the engine quits mid-turn resulting in the inability to get out of the way of the oncoming transport truck which can't stop in time) ... and there will be lawsuits. Big ones.
There's no such thing as "fail safe". There's also no such thing as "can't be disabled". If such a thing were mandated to be installed, I would get it disabled on principle, even though I have no intent of doing something that would warrant its use ...
