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.
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.
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.
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.
There are probably 1000x more situations where you accelerate into a crash, rather than out of one. Slow cars are safe 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?
if that was the law how would you enforce it in any meaningful way?
Through the OEM. Wouldn’t be hard to create a system that tracks location locally using GPS and electronically applies an according speed limit from a govt database
Acceleration is a simple matter of distance/time/time.
Mechanically minded people mod cars everyday.
People break all sorts of laws every day. It doesn’t mean you don’t bother making them.
Then police would have more reason to F with everyone at their pleasure.
Actually they’d have less, considering cars would be physically incapable of speeding.
You would for sure need more surveillance from the state. Probably need more expensive proprietary anti-consumer tech inside the car you own.
…for what?
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
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