Road Net Brings Heavy, Speeding Trucks to an Immediate Halt

i'm going to get to work right away on my "Stop or Die" sign business.

Looks police statish to me.

What a load of bollards...

These seem to only apply in situations where the driver living is not essential to the emergency...Especially for larger trucks.

This is great for killing truck drivers and not much else.

Methinks they didn't put as much thought into this as they should have. Rather than trying to stop in in two seconds, maybe they should stop it in five or ten?

Criminals are actually better at finding non-violent ways to commit crime than law enforcement is at finding non-violent ways to stop it. For every trucker that tries to run through a road-bloack, there are ten who calmly out-smart the authorities.

I can't see how this can be used for good. Even the video's music is action movie villain-ish.

This sort of thing probably has applications where big trucks are entering areas where collisions could kill many people, like a fuel station.

Car bombs. Do you all suffer from amnesia? Do you truly have the an attention span measured in Internet time? It was not that long ago that bad guys (or heroic freedom fighters to some of you) were running roadblocks with trucks and cars filled with explosives (ya know, the stuff that goes bang and makes a big noise and makes a lot of ouchies).

Perhaps preventing these simple, misunderstood members of a passionate culture should be able to drive their bang-mobiles at high speed into an outdoor market. I guess it wouldn't be "good" and would make anyone who put up a defense like this members of a police-state.

Yes, MadBiker. Law enforcement got it right every time they thought a suspicious vehicle had a bomb in it. I don't see how this could backfire at all.

This isn't safe at all. Think of the terrorists!

Approaching the local post gate means that I slow to 15 mph and then stop to show my ID. There are signs, lights, concrete barriers and soldiers anticipating this and clearly demonstrating that I need to slow down and prepare to stop. Any car that increases speed and charges the gate needs to be stopped, and if that involves this net, so be it.

@KCanathema, @MadBiker Wolf

Yeah, just right when those yankees forgot the orders to let a car pass with max priority thru a post gate: they shot to death an allied secret service agent, his driver and wounded the hostage he just recovered.

Just the first one to come to my mind.

How could anything go wrong?