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Spike-deployment for police cars?


ScienceNostalgia101

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci8ZXxYDajQ

So in this Southland scene, a stolen taxi is aimed directly at a police car and driven toward them for a head-on collision. The cops swerve to avoid this.

I'm just wondering now; is there any way to deploy spikes in the front of police cars, with springs behind the spikes, such that the engine and/or tires of the vehicle in front of them can be punctured, while the springs absorb the impact so the car's speed doesn't change as abruptly as that of the vehicle in front of them? That way, if this sort of thing happens in real life, they can deploy the spikes instead of swerving and stop the criminal sooner.

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