{"id":518,"date":"2024-12-07T05:09:08","date_gmt":"2024-12-07T05:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/07\/friday-squid-blogging-safe-quick-undercarriage-immobilization-device-html\/"},"modified":"2024-12-07T05:09:08","modified_gmt":"2024-12-07T05:09:08","slug":"friday-squid-blogging-safe-quick-undercarriage-immobilization-device-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/07\/friday-squid-blogging-safe-quick-undercarriage-immobilization-device-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Squid Blogging: Safe Quick Undercarriage Immobilization Device"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Friday Squid Blogging: Safe Quick Undercarriage Immobilization Device<\/div>\n

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Fifteen years ago I blogged<\/a> about a different SQUID. Here\u2019s an update<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Fleeing drivers are a common problem for law enforcement. They just won\u2019t stop unless persuaded\u00ad\u2014persuaded by bullets, barriers, spikes, or snares. Each option is risky business. Shooting up a fugitive\u2019s car is one possibility. But what if children or hostages are in it? Lay down barriers, and the driver might swerve into a school bus. Spike his tires, and he might fishtail into a van\u00ad\u2014if the spikes stop him at all. Existing traps, made from elastic, may halt a Hyundai, but they\u2019re no match for a Hummer. In addition, officers put themselves at risk of being run down while setting up the traps.<\/p>\n

But what if an officer could lay down a road trap in seconds, then activate it from a nearby hiding place? What if\u2014\u00adlike sea monsters of ancient lore\u00ad\u2014the trap could reach up from below to ensnare anything from a MINI Cooper to a Ford Expedition? What if this trap were as small as a spare tire, as light as a tire jack, and cost under a grand?<\/p>\n

Thanks to imaginative design and engineering funded by the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Office of the U. S. Department of Homeland Security\u2019s Science and Technology Directorate (S&T), such a trap may be stopping brigands by 2010. It\u2019s called the Safe Quick Undercarriage Immobilization Device, or SQUID. When closed, the current prototype resembles a cheese wheel full of holes. When open (deployed), it becomes a mass of tentacles entangling the axles. By stopping the axles instead of the wheels, SQUID may change how fleeing drivers are, quite literally, caught.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Friday Squid Blogging: Safe Quick Undercarriage Immobilization Device Fifteen years ago I blogged about a different SQUID. Here\u2019s an update: Fleeing drivers are a common problem for law enforcement. They just won\u2019t stop unless persuaded\u00ad\u2014persuaded by bullets, barriers, spikes, or snares. Each option is risky business. Shooting up a fugitive\u2019s car is one possibility. But […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,341,99,91,1],"tags":[87],"class_list":["post-518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bruce-schneier","category-cars","category-law-enforcement","category-squid","category-uncategorized","tag-bruce-schneier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}