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b0unce. [?] 12-01-2011 02:44 PM

Future of Cop Cars?
 
You Can’t Run From the Cop Car of the Future

Police cars of the very near future will be smart to the point of being scary. Equipped with eight cameras, voice commands, incredibly intelligent software, and LTE radios, you're not going to get away with a damn thing.
Motorola Solutions isn't working on building the latest and greatest Droid—that's Motorola Mobility—these guys have their fingers more in corporate and governmental pots. Engineers have done hundreds of ride-alongs, surveys, and simulations, and have applied all of their wireless knowledge into designing a police car that is so advanced it's actually very unsettling. Here are some highlights:

Automated License Plate Recognition

The car's outward facing cameras will be scanning every license plate that passes through their field of vision. Impossible, you say? Using infrared as well as standard cameras, Motorola says their system can see and store up 10,000 license plates in a shift. In bad weather. Even if there's a 130MPH difference in speed between the cars. All of which is insane. According to Motorola, "Typically, the system will scan and recognize a plate in about 1-2 seconds and compare it instantaneously against a locally-stored database of plates of interest (i.e. stolen cars, known felons, people who haven't paid their parking tickets in years, etc)." The system would then alert the officer. Um, wow.

A central database will also keep track of what cars were where and when. Why? Say there was a murder on the 100 block of X Street. Cops put the time of death at about 3pm. If a patrol car just happened to have passed by that block 15 minutes earlier, they have a list of all the cars that were parked in that area. If another killing happens somewhere else, and again, the cops had driven by some time around then, the system can cross-check those licenses and come up with a list of suspects. That's an extreme example, of course, but that's how it could be used. Could it also be misused? Yeah, it most definitely could.

LTE and Cameras

All those cameras? In addition to constantly caching video, they can also stream it back to headquarters in realtime. If a cop pulls someone over, that means more eyes can be on the situation. Such a thing was impossible in the past because there was no wireless technology that could handle that kind of bandwidth. 4G to the rescue. The LTE also means that the officer in the field will have greatly enhanced access to remote computer systems.

LTE aside, the onboard computer will be a pair of eyes as well. The car may be able to see something the cop can't, especially at night, or when the officer is already over at the suspect's vehicle. If, for example, one of the cameras detects motion in the suspect's back seat, the computer system can sound an alert to warn the officer of potential danger. I'd say this has a high potential for false-positives, but I didn't get to see it in action. One of the ways it might alert the officer, besides the obvious bleat from the siren, is via the...

Heads-Up Display Glasses

Okay, so this one's still a little ways off. The unit I tested in the video above was very much a prototype. The screen that covered one of my eyes looked like a feature phone from a few years ago, it just did basic tasks, and it was slow to respond to voice commands. The concept, however, is very interesting. It would open the door not only for the car's computer or someone at headquarters to be able to relay messages to the officer as they are speaking with a suspect, but it could record video and offer more situational awareness than the officer would have with just the naked eyes. Infrared vision is just one of the possibilities.

Motorola's whole system is designed to be extremely intuitive and easy to use in a high pressure situation. Almost everything is done with either a single button-press or a voice command. They even thought to put the voice control button right on the steering wheel. Oh, and it's coming sooner than you think. Many of these features are being tested and rolled out now in cities like Los Angeles, and they will be coming to more and more areas soon. As LTE blankets the country, these systems will follow, and over the course of the next few years it will be rule rather than the exception. Basically, there's never been a worse time to be on the cops' bad side.

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You Can't Run From the Cop Car of the Future

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sdubfid 12-01-2011 03:10 PM

Crown Victoria is discontinued too, new Taurus police interceptor is 365hp awd and better economy than those old boats.
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rsx 12-01-2011 03:15 PM

No hover? No rockets?

Sky_High 12-01-2011 04:09 PM

http://d24w6bsrhbeh9d.cloudfront.net...94761_700b.jpg


:fuckyea:

dlo 12-01-2011 04:14 PM

:heckno: and we're be paying for all of this?

kwy 12-01-2011 04:49 PM

^Please explain...

edit: Lol, idiot deleted his post.

Excelsis 12-01-2011 05:17 PM

simple solution

















































remove your plates :troll:

Geoc 12-01-2011 07:11 PM

What if the terminal BSOD's in the middle of a high risk situation :troll:

underscore 12-01-2011 07:47 PM

that's pretty slick, I could see this being very helpful in the situations where an officer may not be able to radio for backup.

now I just need some magnet plates for when I park...

pawdregry4g 12-01-2011 07:52 PM

I'm watching performance vids of these new police interceptors from ford's site, is the technology in these really that much better than what we can buy in the <40k price range?

xilley 12-01-2011 07:57 PM

Say there was a murder on the 100 block of X Street. Cops put the time of death at about 3pm. If a patrol car just happened to have passed by that block 15 minutes earlier, they have a list of all the cars that were parked in that area. If another killing happens somewhere else, and again, the cops had driven by some time around then, the system can cross-check those licenses and come up with a list of suspects. That's an extreme example, of course, but that's how it could be used. Could it also be misused? Yeah, it most definitely could.

thats pretty helpful i must say

StaxBundlez 12-01-2011 11:35 PM

then... one day..

http://www.forevergeek.com/wp-conten...60-470x316.jpg

J89 12-01-2011 11:41 PM

http://www.thelastgoddess.com/wordpr...the-Police.jpg

Bahhbeehhaaaa 12-02-2011 12:42 AM

I'm surprised that they didn't mention anything about the system being able to read on coming traffic speed

dee242 12-02-2011 03:15 AM

problems with this how will they afford this and u dont think u can llok at ur computer while driving

StylinRed 12-02-2011 03:20 AM

thought this was already implemented locally?

or were they just testing it cant remember

Matsuda 12-02-2011 09:29 AM

it needs a:

http://images03.olx.in/ui/7/43/42/12...1286271461.jpg

=D

death_blossom 12-02-2011 09:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dee242 (Post 7712103)
problems with this how will they afford this and u dont think u can llok at ur computer while driving

cops always look at their computer while driving.

StylinRed 12-02-2011 09:46 AM

yeah ALPR has been being tested/used for a few years now locally just google it :)

see.lai 12-02-2011 10:16 AM

http://www.allpar.com/squads/photos/...ge-charger.jpg

Right at the border crossing.. :alone:

StylinRed 12-02-2011 10:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by see.lai (Post 7712768)
http://www.allpar.com/squads/photos/...ge-charger.jpg

Right at the border crossing.. :alone:

here your image isnt working


Simplex123 12-02-2011 10:24 AM

BlackBerries and PlayBooks are also being tested on cop cars



SpartanAir 12-03-2011 12:20 PM

Anyone have links to the new taurus cop car?

LC21 12-03-2011 01:15 PM

I've seen some of these dodge stealth cars in port coquitlam.

StylinRed 12-03-2011 01:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SpartanAir (Post 7713795)
Anyone have links to the new taurus cop car?



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