00:01I'm Adam Balkin, not going to lie, it will stink to find this on your car,
00:06but not quite as bad as the alternative it's trying to replace, the dreaded boot.
00:11This is instead the Barnacle.
00:14It attaches to the windshield with commercial grade suction cups
00:17that provide hundreds of pounds of force.
00:19It's designed to be tamper proof, tamper resistant.
00:24It's got an alarm so if you are hitting on the you know trying to break it, it'll make you
00:29know
00:29there will be a loud alarm and if you try and move the vehicle, then the alarm will also go
00:35off.
00:35And developers say among the pluses for
00:36police, a since they're small and stackable, it takes fewer officers to deploy these and they
00:41fit in any car as opposed to the trucks needed to carry just three or four boots at a time
00:46and
00:47B from a safety perspective these can all be installed from the curbside, no kneeling down
00:52موسيقى
00:53So, clearly this is different from a boot, now the why you should care part.
00:57Well, for starters, if you happen to find one of these on your car, you can get it off yourself.
01:01You don't have to pay and then wait for a police officer to come get it off for you.
01:06You can call and pay over the phone.
01:09Once you pay, you'll receive a code which you put into the device.
01:12And after you take it off, there'll be a predetermined drop-off location nearby.
01:17Creators of the Barnacle say they plan to have testing underway in four cities by the end of the summer,
01:21after which it'll look to expand and start giving boots the boot.
01:26Adam Malkin, New York One.
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