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Amped Up: Electric cars able to outrun traditional cruisers prompt law enforcement to invest in their own (www.live5news.com)
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[–] [email protected] 61 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

How about you just stop doing car chases and endangering everyone?

During a pursuit in West Memphis, Arkansas, a state trooper attempted a tactical vehicle immobilization technique known as a PIT maneuver twice in attempts to stop a fleeing Tesla Model Y, but both times the vehicle accelerated out of reach and was only stopped after driving over a tire-deflation device.

Yeah, great idea, pushing a car into a spin while at high speed could never go wrong. Turns out just calling ahead and blocking the road is the thing that actually works.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Especially in an electric car. Battery fire is no joke.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

More mass as well, which will take more energy to stop and will destroy whatever it's flung into.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

You don't do a PIT without wanting to kill the person in the car. The cops want it to be deadly.

It's hilariously dangerous for everyone involved, but mostly for the person getting slammed into by an armored cop car.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Seems like the kind of thing that was originally intended as a last resort that cops decided should be their second choice instead.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Seems like these chases are the very definition of ones you need to call off before someone gets killed. If a car is out-accelerating an already fast police car, you’re already endangering everyone around

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

we must escalate the situation, it’s the American way.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Helicopters and drones with lagging ground units is the way.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

There is a solution to this:

  1. Witness offense

  2. Take picture/video of offense with numberplate visible

  3. Send ticket via mail

  4. Collect fine via bank transfer

  5. (Profit) be done with it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

That would probably work for small offenses like speeding, but not for larger crimes like a jewelry heist or something. You'd still have to chase them down in that case, no?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

No one outruns a radio, and pretty much never a helicopter either.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

pulls out my jammer and rocket launcher

GTA has taught me well

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Speed limit enforced by aircraft

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

They can't drive off the side of the road and run into the forest or something?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

uses a fake plate

Cops: :O

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No need. If they're going that fast, just put a chopper on them and pick them up when they run out of juice. Shouldn't be too long.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

While the chopper follows the dummy, do the real heist and make a clean getaway.

Did nobody watch 2 Fast 2 Furious?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I'm surprised they didn't just require manufacturers to install acceleration limiters and remote kill switches. Hopefully they never do.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Speed limiters on commercial trucks already exist. They could be applied to private cars too. Not sure why, on public roads, there is much of a reason to drive 100 miles per hour. Many cars can go beyond that.

I agree about a remote kill switch. That has too high a potential to be abused. A limiter though, one that was fixed and not variable based on anything, would be fine I think.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

No fucking thanks, man!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

The cops need suicide drones to make killing people in electric cars safe again.