A California company is advertising ‘tactical response’ Tesla Cybertruck upgrades for police cruisers, including shotgun racks and sirens.

  • Flying Squid
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    23225 days ago

    I will laugh my ass off when this thing breaks down and catches on fire during their “tactical response” after someone throws a water bottle at it.

    • @adaveinthelife@lemmy.ca
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      7125 days ago

      I’m going to laugh my ass off when someone figures out how to track them all in real time, and shares it on a publicly accessible website.

    • @cole@lemdro.id
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      324 days ago

      battery fires are not at all common in electric vehicles. this is propaganda

      • Flying Squid
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        824 days ago

        On this planet, we have a concept called ‘humor,’ which involves exaggeration and absurdity for the purpose of getting a laugh. I hope this comes to your own world someday.

        • @cole@lemdro.id
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          121 days ago

          repeat falsehoods often enough and people believe them, even if you originally mean them as a well-intentioned and obvious joke

          • Flying Squid
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            121 days ago

            Sorry… are people repeating the falsehood that Cybertrucks catch fire if you throw a water bottle at them?

              • Flying Squid
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                121 days ago

                Or I implied that the Cybertruck is a badly-constructed piece of shit.

                • @cole@lemdro.id
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                  221 days ago

                  you may have INTENDED to imply only that, but you did imply both unfortunately. I agree with you on the cyber truck part, but I deal with a lot of slightly more rural folks and the big fear RN with electric vehicles is somehow battery fires. which is crazy since they don’t happen anywhere near as often as gas vehicles. so I’m just trying to say we should be careful to avoid that particular cliche (the battery fire part) since it misleads people