摘要 |
A remotely operable vehicle disabling system (10) for terminating operation of a vehicle. The system has a remotely operable transmit unit (12) for transmitting a command shutdown message (23) to a command-receiver vehicle unit (16) in a vehicle. The vehicle unit (16) is in communication with at least one operational component and capable of shutting down that component to thereby terminate vehicle operation. The transmit unit (12) can initially transmit a query message (19) prior to the shutdown message (23) to confirm vehicle identity or to confirm the presence of vehicle disabling system. Correspondingly, the vehicle unit (16) is capable of receiving both the query message (19) and the shutdown message (23) and of responding to the query message (19), with all such communication activities preferably being encoded with a continuously changing key. |