Police Fleets Target Sharp New Way to End Car Chases

New technology for police fleets is intersecting with the latest in start-up financing as MobileSpike Technologies launches an equity crowdfunding campaign to fund the production of its patented tire-deflation-stick technology.

Here’s what’s cool about the product: The MobileSpike is mounted on the front of police vehicles and allows police to disable fleeing vehicles with the push of a button.  In fact, it resembles a modern form of jousting.

The company claims that “law enforcement can quickly terminate a pursuit using the retractable tire spiking technology at speeds of 15-120 miles per hour.”  Not exactly high-speed stuff, but who knows, perhaps some of the bad guys will politely drive well under the speed limit.

In any event, the company hopes it will save lives of police, suspects and innocent bystanders.

According to e the company, “Police are currently using a manually deployed spike strip to disable fleeing vehicles which was invented in the 1940s. This manual spike strip requires a police officer to exit the vehicle and throw the spike strip in the road ahead of a fleeing suspect.”

Law enforcement also uses a precision immobilization technique called a PIT maneuver, by which a pursuing officer can bump the rear corner of a fleeing vehicle, causing the driver to lose control and stop. However, both methods are a danger to law enforcement, fleeing suspects and innocent by-standers.

MobileSpike notes that it is raising up to the maximum $1 million in equity crowdfunding as well as additional funding from accredited investors.

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