GPS for Criminals

Popular Science is showing off a new technology that the Los Angeles Police Department will be trying out. It is actually a very simple system that delivers an adhesive GPS tracking device in the form of a dart that sticks to the offending car.

Los Angeles, car capital of the country, is notorious for its epic police chases. O.J.-style pursuits may make for exciting TV, but the fatality statistics are sobering: Police chases kill, on average, one Californian every week. Now the Virginia-based company StarChase has proposed a safer way to catch fast- moving crooks—shoot GPS homing devices like darts and stick them to the back of fleeing vehicles.