Militarized Cybertruck cop cars are coming
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A California company is advertising ‘tactical response’ Tesla Cybertruck upgrades for police cruisers, including shotgun racks and sirens.
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A California company is advertising ‘tactical response’ Tesla Cybertruck upgrades for police cruisers, including shotgun racks and sirens.
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?
sounds like he either worked in ICE or kitted the vehicles.
I think he meant ICE as in 'internal combustion engine' vehicles, because I'm reasonably certain ICE doesn't do evidence collection or write citations with printers. I think ICE also handles karens quite differently.
What else do you expect local governments to spend the opiate settlement money on, rehabilitation?
Don't forget all those assets they seize.
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.
Idk. Cops can spend all day in their cruisers and blow through tons of fuel/power during a high speed chase. The EV would also have to power all the electronics on the cruiser including lights, sirens, radios, their laptop thing. Battery capacity might not be able to power the cruiser long enough. Especially if the crusier works a day and a night shift with different officers. Last thing a cop wants is back up cannot arrive because they are charging a battery.
You might have misunderstood, but I was saying the fact that it's an EV is the only part that makes sense for a police cruiser (assuming they have enough to rotate them out while charging it can schedule that for breaks). Nothing else about the cyber truck makes sense.
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?