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Police firing GPS tracking ‘bullets’ at cars during chases

Posted on October 27, 2013July 1, 2025 by Dissent

Chris Matyszczyk reports:

Car chases are exciting, but fraught. (sic)

One slip of the wheel, one errant pedestrian, one drunken driver, and difficult consequences may follow.

Police in Iowa and Florida, however, seem to have taken the counsel of Q from the “Bond” movies.

Instead of constantly hurtling after potential madmen, they have found an entirely new method of tracking their cars.

It’s called Starchase. Essentially, it’s a cannon that fires “bullets” that are sticky GPS devices.

Read more on CNET.

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