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"The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction. You look at the world around you, and take it apart into its components. Then you take some of those components, throw them away, and plug in different ones, start it up and see what happens."
- Frederik Pohl

Self-Propelled Road Mine  
  A small, lightweight mine able to travel at highway speeds; guides itself to a marked target.  

The bad guys want Kirstie Alley dead - and they've bugged her purse with a tracer that can be picked up by small, autonomous, car-launched self-propelled road mines.


(Runaway road mine on the move)

Technovelgy from Runaway, by Michael Crichton.
Published by Tri-Star Pictures in 1985
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Here's a view of the launching process - just drop it through a convenient hole in the bottom of your car.


(Runaway road mine on the move)

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