Patent attributes
A system and method for controlling a hot pursuit situation in which an electronic device is attached to a fleeing vehicle to be tracked by projecting it, as by shooting it from a firearm, against the fleeing vehicle. The device is contained in a frangible pellet, having an outer casing containing a sticky substance coating the electronic device contained within that will be attached to the fleeing vehicle upon impact. In addition to containing circuitry for tracking the vehicle, the circuitry of the pellets contain circuitry to change traffic lights in the vicinity of the vehicle to green for the fleeing vehicle so crossing traffic is prevented from moving in front of the fleeing vehicle at an intersection through which the fleeing vehicle is passing.