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There was already someone in the comments under the video asking what
would be the best gun for taking one of these down. I suggested a
Barrett .50-cal. It'd prolly be overkill for one of Elon's
first-generation Terminators, but you might as well start preparing for
the T-101s now.
And I want to get out ahead of this right now: the 2nd Amendment
includes the right to own personal combat robots. The government should
have a monopoly on weaponized drones and androids.
Sorry, but this crap won't work. You'll never form a well-regulated
militia out of these things. Also they'll start spending the whole time
posting on Twitter.
Elon's robo trucks are a joke. $
Elon himself is a joke, as is every looney idea he comes up with.
And yet he's the one who has to rescue the Boeing astronauts from the ISS
because his space rocket works and Boeing's fell apart.
Just because he has smart people working for him at various companies
doesn't change the fact that he is a bit loony. He's just a man who
got extremely lucky with Paypal and has been able to keep the money
train flowing with the hype he puts out for his various companies.
He's very much like Trump but smarter.
They're both morons!
In fact, Musk is probably the more stupid since he goes around
supporting Trump the Chump's campaign, while Trump himself goes around
saying nobody wants electric cars (about the only thing Trump teh Chump
has ever been correct about). :-)
Apparently a lot of people do want electric cars. I live in an area
that isn't ritzy but yet there are people with quite a few electric
cars here as I can tell when they drive by. Now that may be because of
the support the federal government was/is giving. I know that was
supposedly one of the reasons Teslas were selling quite well due to
the government savings people got for buying an electric car.
California Cops Are Finding Out Teslas Are 'Nearly Unusable' As Police
Cruisers
https://autos.yahoo.com/california-cops-finding-teslas-nearly-165500844.html
Police in California are experiencing what happens when good intentions crash
into reality. Police departments are transitioning to battery powered vehicles
but those vehicles come with challenges that make cops' jobs more difficult.
California is all in on an electric future, planning to ban the sale of gas
and diesel powered cars starting in 2035. To get ready for this brave new
world some police departments started with buying a few Teslas. These
departments immediately ran into serious problems using the vehicles as
cruisers, such as a lack of charging infrastructure, inadequate interior
space, expensive and lengthy retrofitting processes, interference from
advanced driver safety assistance systems and more.
Police Chief Cedric Crook for the Ukiah, California police department told San
Francisco Gate he doesn't think the department's Model 3s will see action any
time soon:
Tesla back seats "only have room for one prisoner," Crook said, limiting an
officer's ability to sequester suspects. With an all-Tesla police force, Crook
believes incidents involving more than one party will require more officers to
respond with more cars, putting strain on resources, all because of the tiny
back seat.
Police are often required to transport suspects, witnesses, or victims for
cases they're working, sometimes for long distances. Crook remembered a case
where his detectives drove 630 miles to Mexico to transport a potentially
dangerous subject in their vehicle. If the detectives were in a Tesla, Crook
noted they would have had to spend an hour in the middle of the drive at an
unsecured public charging station standing guard over the person, something
that would not happen with an internal combustion engine.
Furthermore, Crook told SFGATE that he'd heard officers were unable to
comfortably get in and out of the driver's seat with their duty belt on
because of the Tesla design. Police duty belts generally weigh between 20 and
25 pounds, adding bulk to an officer's torso, which may not fit within the
slim, streamlined Tesla aesthetic.
Another concern Crook has about Teslas, and EVs broadly, comes from an
essential lesson he was taught in the police academy: "In a firefight, hide
behind the engine block." In a Tesla, there is no engine block, leaving
officers without their preferred cover, he said.**
The Model Y is not much better than the Model 3, according to Menlo Park
officers. Problems include cramped spaces for cops in bullet proof vests and
duty belts leave little room for comfort and an inability to do cop things
like jump curbs due to Autopilot programming.
[**NOTE: I took cover behind the engine block in my academy and the
instructors skipped rounds off the pavement under the car and into my ankles
to disabuse me of the notion that there's any valid cover behind a car other
than directly behind the wheels.]