[–] 26697458? 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago 

Exactly what happened to Hastings.

[–] 26698760? 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Your right it is exactly like his.

[–] 26698301? 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago  (edited ago)

I was about to say that.

It seems that they’re causing the car to accelerate at maximum. Not sure if they control the steering or not. On impact, if the object which stopped the car can’t also stop the engine, the engine tears loose from its mounts as the body crumbles and continues to travel. It’s really just a testimony to how fast the car was traveling when it hit something.

This is why I was speculating about superjamming in another thread— i keep imagining some kind of beamed weapon which causes the engine to rev to max rpm.

But evidence perhaps pointing to hacking is that these individuals seemed unable to shift to neutral or turn off the car, which are the first things I would try if I had lost command authority over the controls.

[–] 26699741? 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

The hacking can override steering, brakes, and transmission.

[–] 26698270? 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

except Hastings was the target. I'm not so certain this kid was the target, I suspect someone else was assumed to be driving that car.

[–] 26699980? ago 

The kid was connected to Kemp and Loeffler, he may have done something he may have done nothing at all to warrant being labeled a threat to the DS.

In a horrible way, it would be more effective if he really had only done the most minor offence to the Cabal, murdering innocent people is nothing for these people, it is nothing.

[–] 26698278? 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

That is an interesting thought.

[–] 26697546? [S] 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago  (edited ago)

This CDAN post from 11/3 appears to implicate McChrystal (or his team) in Hastings death using an IED....

"Today's Blind Items - Revenge

After many years, there has been a breakthrough in the death of this reporter who was digging into an online tabloid's giving positive coverage to celebrities for pay. His death wasn't related to that, but three military guys who had been fired in the wake of a story the reporter had written a few years earlier. They followed him and harassed him and then ultimately planted an IED that his car ran over and blew up. One of the three guys told a woman he was going to marry, the story. When she heard it, she split with him and she shared it with reporters who have been digging into it the past two months."

[–] 26698519? 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

Right, they're going to hope a panicked Hastings took a route than ran over their planted IED. What happens if someone else happened to drive over it first? Maybe it was a remote detonated IED that they were going to dig up the next day if Hastings took a different route? If there was a bomb (sure seems like it), it was planted inside the vehicle.