S&T: Safe Quick Undercarriage Immobilization Device
written by United States. Department of Homeland Security; produced by United States. Department of Homeland Security (District of Columbia: United States. Department of Homeland Security, 2009), 19 secs
Details
- Abstract / Summary
- Thanks to imaginative design and engineering funded by the Small Business Innovation Research Office of DHS's S&T Directorate, the Safe Quick Undercarriage Immobilization Device, or SQUID was developed. When closed, the current prototype resembles a cheese wheel full of holes. When open (deployed), it becomes a mass of tentacles entangling the axles. By stopping the axles instead of the wheels, SQUID may change how fleeing drivers are, quite literally, caught
- Field of Interest
- Criminal Justice & Public Safety
- Copyright Message
- Copyright © 2009 by Department of Homeland Security
- Corporate Author
- United States. Department of Homeland Security
- Content Type
- Documentary
- Duration
- 19 secs
- Format
- Video
- Original Release Date
- 2009
- Producer - Institution
- United States. Department of Homeland Security
- Publisher
- United States. Department of Homeland Security
- Place Published / Released
- District of Columbia
- Release Date
- 2009
- Subject
- Criminal Justice & Public Safety, Social Sciences, Law Enforcement, Cars, Sciences, Cuerpos Policiales, Aplicação da Lei, Vehicle, United States. National Institute of Standards and Technology, Criminal Justice & Public Safety
- Keywords and Translated Subjects
- Cuerpos Policiales, Aplicação da Lei, Vehicle