Beaver@lemmy.ca to Electric Vehicles@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoAmped Up: Electric cars able to outrun traditional cruisers prompt law enforcement to invest in their ownwww.live5news.comexternal-linkmessage-square24fedilinkarrow-up1101
arrow-up1101external-linkAmped Up: Electric cars able to outrun traditional cruisers prompt law enforcement to invest in their ownwww.live5news.comBeaver@lemmy.ca to Electric Vehicles@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square24fedilink
minus-squareatrielienz@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·3 months agoEspecially in an electric car. Battery fire is no joke.
minus-squarejonne@infosec.publinkfedilinkarrow-up14·3 months agoMore mass as well, which will take more energy to stop and will destroy whatever it’s flung into.
minus-squaremosiacmango@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up12·edit-23 months agoYou 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.
minus-squarePlantJam@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·3 months agoSeems like the kind of thing that was originally intended as a last resort that cops decided should be their second choice instead.
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.