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> Read a while ago that the RAF had to pay compensation to almost a hundred
> car owners - one of their air-defense "steerable-array" radars went
> haywire
> and scanned over a road - they burned out almost every vehicle's ignition
> and fuel injection microprocessors with the radar beam!
Haha LOL, although not so LOL if it was your car.
> The point being an old, mechanical vehicle ignition system (carburettors,
> a
> rotor and points) would have just driven on with no problems.
I think that's quite a specialised failure mechanism :-) I suspect the
point with the ignition system is that for the same amount of money you can
make a much more reliable electrical one than purely mechanical, given how a
car will typically be used (ie not driving in front of an uber powerful
radar).
BTW, I wonder if the police could have a portable version of such a radar,
which they could use to stop cars...
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