Electric Vehicles @lemmy.world Beaver @lemmy.ca 1 mo. ago

Amped Up: Electric cars able to outrun traditional cruisers prompt law enforcement to invest in their own

www.live5news.com Amped Up: Electric cars able to outrun traditional cruisers prompt law enforcement to invest in their own

Police departments coast to coast are going electric — pursuing savings and efficiency along with bad guys.

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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.
- Remember the pregnant woman that got PITed and then flipped over because she was waiting to pull over until it was safe?
- Especially in an electric car. Battery fire is no joke.
  
  More mass as well, which will take more energy to stop and will destroy whatever it's flung into.
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
- we must escalate the situation, it’s the American way.
- Helicopters and drones with lagging ground units is the way.
There is a solution to this:

Witness offense

Take picture/video of offense with numberplate visible

Send ticket via mail

Collect fine via bank transfer

(Profit) be done with it.
- 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?
  
  No one outruns a radio, and pretty much never a helicopter either.
- uses a fake plate
  
  Cops: :O
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.
- While the chopper follows the dummy, do the real heist and make a clean getaway.
  
  Did nobody watch 2 Fast 2 Furious?
I'm surprised they didn't just require manufacturers to install acceleration limiters and remote kill switches. Hopefully they never do.
- 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.
  
  No fucking thanks, man!
- I would 100% support electronic speed limiters and acceleration limiters on public roads.
  
  And then when you need to accelerate to avoid an accident, there's not enough power and BLAMMO! Slow cars are dangerous cars.
  
  if that was the law how would you enforce it in any meaningful way? People would overide/not have them.
  
  Well we'd just force them! How!!?! Mechanically minded people mod cars everyday. Then police would have more reason to F with everyone at their pleasure. You would for sure need more surveillance from the state. Probably need more expensive proprietary anti-consumer tech inside the car you own.
  
  Do you know why I pulled you over? Your car transponder isn't transmitting properly.
  
  Do you see what you want unleashed?
The cops need suicide drones to make killing people in electric cars safe again.

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