90% of Cars Would Be Destroyed By EMP

A new study over 90% of all cars on the road in the UK and around 85% of the vehicles in the US would be rendered completely useless if an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) were to be released upon them. The research, which was commissioned by alpha wire management producer Hellerman Tyton, showed that almost all cars would cease to work and cost thousands to repair if they were in an EMP blast zone.The newest EMP blasts are capable of taking out any electrical equipment within a 250 mile radius, but Hellerman Tyton have said that very few countries have this level of EMP technology.

An EMP works by creating a huge electrical current that overloads any semiconductor elements that are found in electrical items beyond all repair. This means that any electrical devices that include semiconductors, which include all computers, phones and media devices, would be completely ruined. Modern cars also have a whole host of electrical equipment built into them and would suffer massive failure of all its fuses. As we relay so heavy on our vehicles for transport, this would have a massive effect on the economy of the effected country. This is why a large number of countries are not only concerned about the technology but also looking into developing it themselves.

The conductors of the research also added that the government’s new vehicle scrappage scheme will soon add even more vulnerable cars to our roads. The latest cars to be produced have have record numbers of electrically reliant systems. Their new technology makes them more functional but ultimately more vulnerable to these sorts of attacks.  Even the new LEDs being fitted to a lot of cars will no longer work if they are subject to an EMP burst. There is not a vast amount we can do to protect ourselves unfortunantly as their will also be an ever increasing demand for the newest technology to be put in our cars. We just have to hope a big EMP will never happen