A California company is advertising ‘tactical response’ Tesla Cybertruck upgrades for police cruisers, including shotgun racks and sirens.
I will laugh my ass off when this thing breaks down and catches on fire during their “tactical response” after someone throws a water bottle at it.
I’m going to laugh my ass off when someone figures out how to track them all in real time, and shares it on a publicly accessible website.
I hope they explode
The first casualty of those battery fires is probably going to be someone handcuffed and locked in the back seat.
battery fires are not at all common in electric vehicles. this is propaganda
On this planet, we have a concept called ‘humor,’ which involves exaggeration and absurdity for the purpose of getting a laugh. I hope this comes to your own world someday.
repeat falsehoods often enough and people believe them, even if you originally mean them as a well-intentioned and obvious joke
Sorry… are people repeating the falsehood that Cybertrucks catch fire if you throw a water bottle at them?
no but they ARE repeating the falsehood about battery fires being likely or common: https://lemmy.world/comment/10496586
(which is something your joke implied)
Or I implied that the Cybertruck is a badly-constructed piece of shit.
you may have INTENDED to imply only that, but you did imply both unfortunately. I agree with you on the cyber truck part, but I deal with a lot of slightly more rural folks and the big fear RN with electric vehicles is somehow battery fires. which is crazy since they don’t happen anywhere near as often as gas vehicles. so I’m just trying to say we should be careful to avoid that particular cliche (the battery fire part) since it misleads people
With the all-wheel drive Cybertruck’s current $79,990 price, it stands to reason the combined taxpayer cost for a vehicle and new UP.FIT features could easily top $90,000. <
I’d be pretty upset if my municipality was set to dump 100k on this trash.
Imagine thinking they will only buy one.
if they’re anything like the ICE cruisers… they’re dropping another shitload in up grades. custom-built gun vaults, as well as other specially-built storage … first aid, extra handcuffs. leg cuffs. Kiddie cuffs. flex-cuffs. evidence collection. Road safety stuffs. Flashlights. speed radar thingies. rolls of printer paper for citation printers. Cameras. spare uniforms. Condoms for the badgebunnies. extra batteries for radios. extra batteries for flashlights. batteries for cameras. extra uniforms. all sorts of bullshit paperwork and forms that only get filled out when they come a cross a karen. Door breaching and lock out tools
needless to say, cops keep a lot of junk in the trunk. So much so the cop’s version of the ford explorer (“Police Interceptor Utility”) actually only has a special suspension to handle the extra weight, and 2 rows of seating instead of 3 to accommodate the entirely-custom storage rack.
oh. you thought they were talking about body armor… naw. They get APC’s for that.
There is also the extra radio, sirens, lights, and some have built in radar and plate scanning cameras. I’m pretty sure there are extra batteries and a stronger alternator to keep systems powered and ensure engine starts if auxiliary power is drained.
Different crusiers also have different set ups. Some are normal patrol cars while others have K-9 accomadations, shield and extra defensive gear, pursuit intervention tools like spikes and stop sticks. Cops use such a wide variety of tools that one crusier can’t fit every tool for every situation.
They’ve got a cop motor, a 440 cubic inch plant. They’ve got cop tires, cop suspensions, cop shocks. They’re a model made before catalytic converters so they’ll run good on regular gas.
Are you a former cop?
What else do you expect local governments to spend the opiate settlement money on, rehabilitation?
Don’t forget all those assets they seize.
They’re gonna waste that money anyway. At least the cybertruck is dangerous enough that a few cops might die as a result.
And can you really put a price on that?
And you’d have to ask what makes it a good police vehicle. An electric vehicle probably makes Sense, but I’m not sure there’s anything else about it that does. Certainly not the price tag.
“You’re under a rust!”
STOP! In the name of Elon!
Not sure that’s a great idea given that prisoners can simply escape using the gaps in the doors
Worry not. The automatic doors will crush all their fingers and toes first.
Has anyone tried sticking their d*ck in yet? One of these clowns is bound to, if not. I just don’t want to miss it.
does crime in a rain storm or up a sandy incline
The cops:
On a related note how come criminals in Gotham City don’t just do crime during the day time?
They’re criminals, not monsters.
I feel there’s a great intersection of cops and those people who still buy into Elon’s bullshit. It couldn’t be any other way.
lol. Cool, cop cars that are weak to flipper zeros.
The cyberpunk futures we all anticipated.
I was promised a robot arm.
Sweet! Outrunning the cops will be super easy if they start using these pieces of shit!
Bit of background on police cars. Mechanically, they’re not made to be especially fast, nor necessarily accelerate very quickly, nor handle particularly well. The police package modifications have more to do with endurance. A cop car isn’t going to do 180MPH, but it’s going to be able to do 110 for way longer than a regular production vehicle. A alot of that comes down to extra cooling: engine, transmission, power steering. Cop cars have steel wheels because they bend instead of shattering, and you can still drive on a bent wheel that holds air.
Does the Cybertruck scream “reliable and high endurance”?
Police vehicles also need to be generally multipurpose, to carry weapons, first aid, other gear, and detainees as necessary. This means they need to have enough room in the back seat for a partition, and accessible cargo space so that any particular thing can be quickly accessed. I can’t speak to the back seat of a Cybertruck, but that silly body line at the front of the bed makes a huge part of its cargo space useless. If you want to access stuff that’s up there, you’re going to have to climb in the back and crawl over everything, or unload a bunch of shit that’s in the way, like me looking for the fucking mayonaisse in my refrigerator after my wife has jammed it way too full of other shit. Maybe a Cybertruck could stand in for a State Police car that runs the interstates instead of a Dodge Charger. Maybe.
Ever noticed how lots of police departments label their cars in very low contrast lettering? That’s so they can blend into traffic without being instantly noticeable as a police car. I think it’s obvious what I’m pointing out here.
I also don’t think that a pure electric vehicle would ever be used for actual police work. Having to stick it on a charger for an hour, at least once a day, takes the vehicle and its driver out of service for much longer than just filling up a gas tank. Yeah, you might be able to coordinate the charging with “paperwork time,” but it’s still something worth considering.
tl;dr: The Cybertruck is the worst police vehicle any department could ever choose.
Ever noticed how lots of police departments label their cars in very low contrast lettering? That’s so they can blend into traffic without being instantly noticeable as a police car. I think it’s obvious what I’m pointing out here.
you mean that automatic siren built into the body paneling isn’t gonna help them blend in?
All spot on!
Story: Some idiot company is trying to sell these things.
Lemmy: LOL, cops are idiots!
Who says anyone is purchasing this?!
Particularly given that the design quality houses a whole slew of critically bad design choices.
Like shock absorber brackets and axel mounts that can’t handle simple offroad loads.
I am seriously looking forward to videos of some poor sucker trying to pull a PIT maneuver
In murica… Cops pit themselves.
What?
I’m imagining the cybercop bouncing off the car they meant to pit and flipping/rolling until the cop is skidding on nothing more than a car seat and holding a steering wheel.
Yes, it’s cartoonish.
Cartoons are great and so is that mental image, thank you for that
I agree, and you’re welcome.
Looks like its a good time to be a criminal
Surely with their budgets and current level of militarisation, US police departments could afford real APCs/light infantry vehicles rather than this mall-ninja tacticool cosplay garbage.
They already do.
This is a pseudo kickback, something to fluff elons ego
So another tax payer handout to Musk?
Man, he is THE welfare Queen
I’d be more worried if they switched to old white tacomas. switch to persistent car chases. Never speeding, just following along waiting for you to run out of fuel. Oh you going off road? That huge dent on the roof is when it rolled over back in '03. I got 2 jerry cans my partner can pour while still driving.
And so it begins, a billionaire owning the police. Smart move Musk, smart move.
You’re gonna be shocked when you learn that the current cop cars are also made by billionaires
I am just sitting here looking at all you people upset about government waste and thinking about the crap I see every day working for a company that is primarily a government contractor. The river of dirty money.
Just this week alone, and this is Thursday, I told a state employee PE that his spec calls for a part no longer manufactured and if he doesn’t update his spec he is going to get whatever I find on eBay and he said he doesn’t care. Tens of millions of dollars project and this guy is having me put in used parts on a new system.
As a PE, fuck that guy, that’s fucked up.
said he doesn’t care
said
Please tell me that this was in writing and not actually verbal. And if it was, CC that to everyone now who’s going to blame you later when it all goes horribly wrong.
We all know, everyone knows. You think this is atypical? And yeah I sent my email and copied everyone I was supposed to. Nothing happens. I wrote up a nice one pointing out that these parts are no longer manufactured and as a result I will have to buy used and long run this is hurting the operation team. Even suggested a list of alternative parts. His response? “Rejected, follow spec”. No exaggeration here. So much for mutual respect. 3 word response to another engineer bringing up major project concerns.
I don’t drink tap water when I am in or around Toronto ON. There is a reason for that, I have seen how the sausage is made. Sent a system there I want to say 6 months back with a PLC from about 2002. Whole system was full of used parts, as I explained in my email.
Arizona, California, New York City, Toronto, parts of Florida, Sussex County New Jersey, Dubai, Oregon, and UAE off the top of my head. I am sure I am forgetting plenty. Places where I have sent brand new pieces of equipment with used parts inside it and I warned the guy running the project that this was going to happen if they didn’t update the spec and they didn’t care.
This could be a huge money save. Might cost the city less if they simply bisect pedestrians in police chases instead of paralysing them from the waist down.
