Jamming cell phones, texting is for stupid cunts

[Selby]

There was a Popular Science article that described an easy way to make one of those.  Well, easy if you have a large gun or other explosive, and a powerful magnet.  You just need to move a powerful magnet very quickly through a copper coil.  It is, however, omnidirectional.

We do it all the time at work actually.  "Hey!  Shield your module!  You just killed the data acquisition computer again!"  "The camera is fine where it is!" *bang* "Fuck."  It wouldn't necessarily need to destroy circuitry, just interrupt it enough to cause it to interfere with vehicles on the road and their onboard computers (just raise the ground so that it turns everything off).  30 year old car for the win!  Just need to shield the diode trio in the alternator and the ignition circuit.  All you really need is a high current with a very fast rise-time and a "good" antenna to give it some direction.  You can build one to get power from your onboard alternator\battery and switch it up to where you want it to go using mostly generic off the shelf parts (my thesis project actually involved this).  Being a pulsed power engineer has its benefits ;-)

Granted it would probably require lots of testing before actually being something I would never have the guts to use on the road...

[Lantyssa]

So what your all basically saying is, you want the act of opening your mouth and speaking while driving a car to be illegal?

Good luck enforcing that one 

It's not talking so much as doing it on the phone, as shown by several studies.  When a passenger is in the car it's not bad because they can tell the times you need to focus on driving and the conversation will subconciously ebb and flow with the situation.  When someone is on the phone, whether hands-free or not, they literally start paying more attention to the person on the other end than driving.

[angry.bob]

Being a pulsed power engineer has its benefits ;-)

Granted it would probably require lots of testing before actually being something I would never have the guts to use on the road...

I tried making a heat/death ray in the front end of my car out of capacitors, old microwave oven magnetrons, and other bits. I used my horn as a trigger so that whenever anyone cut me off I could honk and bathe them with microwaves. I don't believe I contructed it correctly as it seems to have no effect, and was wondering if you had any scematics available I could follow.

[Yegolev]

Your plan was to basically cause a slight electrical current in the panels of their cars?

[WayAbvPar]

Being a pulsed power engineer has its benefits ;-)

Granted it would probably require lots of testing before actually being something I would never have the guts to use on the road...

I tried making a heat/death ray in the front end of my car out of capacitors, old microwave oven magnetrons, and other bits. I used my horn as a trigger so that whenever anyone cut me off I could honk and bathe them with microwaves. I don't believe I contructed it correctly as it seems to have no effect, and was wondering if you had any scematics available I could follow.

I usually just try to give them brain cancer with the power of my mind. I haven't seen any of the same people doing stupid shit, so it is obviously working.