Jericho: Silver pickup

In the 11/29 episode there were several shots of a silver one-ton
pickup being driven about. It was a four-door extended cab model,
which should have been far too new to have escaped the EMP.

Steven L....

It could have been shielded against EMP--if the owner knew in advance
that the EMP pulse was coming and prepared for it.

An object entirely encased in conductive sheet metal shielding (say you
park the vehicle in a windowless steel shed that even has a metal floor)
will shield the vehicle from electromagnetic radiation by inducing the
electrical current in the sheet metal which is then grounded.

Ever try wrapping a transistor radio in aluminum foil when you were a
kid? The radio could no longer work because the foil kept out the
radio waves. If I knew an EMP pulse was coming, I would try to shield
my radio and TV from it by wrapping them tightly in many layers of
aluminum foil, which I would then ground with a wire leading from the
foil to the earth.

Dano...

Very good point.

Rob Jensen...

I'm fully admitting here that my knowledge of electronics is pretty
much nonexistent except to say, "Ooooo, sparky!" Say the car were in
the shop at the time of the EMP -- everything was disconnected, even
the on-board computer -- couldn't all the circuitry have survived
intact because no electricity was running through it to fry the boards
with? Couldn't a computer geek into car computers jury-rig something
from inactive circuit boards, particularly if he were a paranoid
computer geek who, say, had a laptop as heavily shielded as Hawkins's?
I mean, we're talkin' Kansas, the start of paranoid survivalist
country. I have no problem with somebody getting one or two more
modern cars up and running in the 8 weeks of story time that have
passed.

-- Rob