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.
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.
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.
Seems like the kind of thing that was originally intended as a last resort that cops decided should be their second choice instead.
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:
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Witness offense
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Take picture/video of offense with numberplate visible
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Send ticket via mail
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Collect fine via bank transfer
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(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.
Speed limit enforced by aircraft
pulls out my jammer and rocket launcher
GTA has taught me well
They can’t drive off the side of the road and run into the forest or something?
uses a fake plate
Cops: :O
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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?
The cops need suicide drones to make killing people in electric cars safe again.
