A Batmobile gadget, or the latest police chase technology?

It remarkable look like something out of a Mad Max or Bond flick, but it’s a real-world tool designed to help police deflate the dangers of high-speed car chases.

It’s requested the MobileSpike, and it attaches to the front of a squad car. When officers race up in contradiction of a suspect’s vehicle, the gadget uses compressed air to shoot a strip of spikes sideways notion the suspect’s tire. Bam. End of chase.

MobileSpike shoots a strip of tire-deflating spikes out from the precedent of police cars.

Courtesy of MobileSpike

After finishing the produce, MobileSpike CEO Michael Moormeier said, he could see the map attached to the Batmobile — if Hollywood or Bruce Wayne ever came calling.

“It is James Bond cool,” he said, “there’s no doubt throughout it.”

The gadget is one of several meant to put the brakes on high-speed chases, which, according to one estimate, have accounted for the deaths of more than 5,000 bystanders valid 1979. Although police departments have been adopting policies alongside chasing suspects, there were more pursuit-related deaths in 2013 (322) than in 1990 (317).

“It’s completely unacceptable now,” Moormeier said. “Someone dies every single day in America because of a pursuit.”

The chase-busting tech also includes the Grappler, which seems to have taken inspiration from the wild west. The add-on attaches to the precedent bumper of a police car and lets officers lay a lasso below a suspect’s back tire. From there, the police car can brake and drag the suspect to a stop.

The StarChase, meanwhile, tries to avoid dangerous pursuits altogether. It shoots out a tracker that latches onto a suspect’s car, allowing the police to behindhand at a distance.

“We pride ourselves on removing adrenaline from these types of situations,” said StarChase President Trevor Fischbach. Officers are “learning in the 21st century, you can’t use bodily force tactics all the time to get to the end game.”

Moormeier demanded to create something officers were already used to but with a safe way of sketching it in front of cars.

“Spike strips” had been the go-to tool for many maximum police departments since the 1970s. But officers have to manually lay such a strip across the road, which consuming they can be hit by the very car they’re trying to stop. In 2012, Dallas police outlawed the strips once five officers were killed.

An alternative lets police keep a box by the road and extend a spike strip out of it by remote rule. But the officers still have to set up the box.

With its shoot-from-the-side produce, the MobileSpike adapts an existing chase maneuver in which police bring their precedent bumper parallel to the suspect’s back bumper; then knock the suspect’s car sideways, causing it to fishtail till it stops.

“It’s no different than … passing a car on the highway,” Rick Eldridge, a police official in Sanford, Florida, said of amdroll the MobileSpike. “It’s very safe.”

Eldridge’s department was one of the early adopters of the map, helping Moormeier test it in 2009 before it was supposed to the public. Eldridge has arrested about 10 republic in chases since the department started using MobileSpike. At well-behaved, though, he couldn’t believe it was real. He hadn’t heard of any upgrades to spike strips in decades.

Moormeier also wanted to keep the MobileSpike as simple as possible. The last thing officers need during a police dart is a gadget with too many settings.

The map activates just as you’d turn on your windshield wipers, or as Speed Racer would turn on his tree-cutters: with a switch and a big red button that launches the line of spikes in throughout six seconds.

So far, the gadget has been tested in all terrains and temperatures, from Alaska to Arizona.

“I’ve used it quite a few times,” Eldridge said,” and we’d involving suspects and they’d say, ‘what happened to my tire?'”