Cops In The States To Be Replaced By Drone Come 2025

[claud3]

Cop cars to be replaced with drones by 2025

Published: 23 November, 2012, 23:34

Credit: Honda R&D Americas, Advanced Design Studio, California

Law enforcement agencies across the US are lining up to be among the first to use drones to serve and protect, but unmanned vehicles are likely to replace the traditional cop cruiser in just a few short years.

In places like California, Texas and Washington State, police officers in recent weeks have intensified their demands for surveillance drones, a necessary addition they say to their arsenal of tools to help thwart crime. The Federal Aviation Administration has yet to finalize plans to put drones in US airspace, but by the end of the decade as many as 30,000 UAVs are expected to be soaring through the sky.

By 2025, those drones are predicted to take the place of the police patrol car as unmanned vehicles operated by cops are being considered a likely inclusion on our roads of tomorrow.

Leading up to this year’s Los Angeles Auto Show, carmakers were asked to put together prototypes showing what they envision highway patrol vehicles to look like in the year 2025. The entries, from big manufacturers like BWM and Honda, are largely based on the still primitive drone technology that is used in military and surveillance missions overseas.

The car show’s organizers asked designers to develop a vehicle that “should empower highway patrol officers to meet new demands and effectively both ‘protect and serve’ the public while considering not just enforcement needs but emission concerns, population growth and transportation infrastructure.”

According to the New York Times, drone devices are far and away the popular choice.

“By coincidence or destiny, designers at several companies came up with concepts for robotic, autonomously driven vehicles on ground, water and air. These future police cruisers — usually presented as story boards rather than actual vehicles — recall today’s Predator and Global Hawk drones, stars of the anti-insurgency efforts. They may give new meaning to those signs that read ‘Speed limit enforced by aircraft,’” writes the Times’ Phil Patton.

In the prototype unveiled by BMW, a larger “ePatrol” vehicle is equipped with up to three individual drones that can be deployed to follow suspected criminals in high-speed chases across busy highways. Once one of the smaller can catch up with a targeted car, those individual drones would then be able to send an impulse to startle the driver. One of those smaller drones would be able to fly on its own, and the other two unmanned vehicles could roll on two wheels through busy roads.

At Honda, designers there envision a similar concept: a large all-electric patrol car that could dispatch at the drop of a hat unmanned motorcycles to catch up with criminals and maintain coverage at high speeds for long distances.

In addition to the BMW E-Patrol (Human-Drone Pursuit Vehicle) and Honda’s CHP Drone Squad, Subaru also sent into the car show designs for the SHARC, or Subaru Highway Automated Response Concept. PSFK online describes it as “an autonomous, zero-emission patrol vehicle” meant to “augment reduced highway patrol budgets by providing remote 3D video to officers who can control the vehicle via goggles and voice command.”

The winner of this year’s design challenge will be announced November 29 in Los Angeles.

http://rt.com/usa/news/cop-patrol-drone-la-442/

I see this might actually happen


Link below is to a related topic... It's on drones in the sea and this is all out drone culture

http://rt.com/usa/news/darpa-drone-unmanned-sub-455/

[F34R]

Lol. Not happening like this plays it out to be.

[podsaurus]

*CoD announcer voice* UAV standing by. *beep boop* Friendly UAV deployed.

I don't believe the eyes and ears of cops on the ground could ever be replaced. Drones are helpful but I don't see cops losing their jobs to drones.

[Kuro]

Robocop for reals? lol Yeah cod DID not first pop into mind.

[DeviousOne]

I just wonder other than patrolling I don't see how this is a better alternative than having humans patrol just sounds expensive and a lose of jobs smh

[F34R]

Basically, it's another pair of eyes on the battlefield... nothing more.

[claud3]

Its no eyes, just robot cold eyes and your cold dead body

[Silver_Knight]

2025? Someone has played Black ops. Too close together to not be mutual.

[DreDayDetox]

I bet this is some clever marketing for Black Ops 2 DLC.

[F34R]

I bet this is some clever marketing for Black Ops 2 DLC.

Lol. That'd be funny as "hell" lol.

[keefy]

Basically, it's another pair of eyes on the battlefield... nothing more.

Probably take part of the role of what the helicopters do now. Dur to no people and only equipment they probably lighter and smaller so can stay up in the air longer perhaps.

Round where I live the copters are often used for finding grow houses for whacky backy.

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[claud3]

I bet this is some clever marketing for Black Ops 2 DLC.

buy buy buy

[F34R]

buy buy buy

LOL!! I'll have to get my own Styrofoam po po! lol

[reasonable_doubt]

i guess it time to stack up on those EMP grenades.

[claud3]

I say send in BRUCE WILLIS.... He has had dealings with cyber attacks