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    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.

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    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

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    There is a solution to this:

    1. Witness offense

    2. Take picture/video of offense with numberplate visible

    3. Send ticket via mail

    4. Collect fine via bank transfer

    5. (Profit) be done with it.

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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.

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      While the chopper follows the dummy, do the real heist and make a clean getaway.

      Did nobody watch 2 Fast 2 Furious?

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    I’m surprised they didn’t just require manufacturers to install acceleration limiters and remote kill switches. Hopefully they never do.

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      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.

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      I would 100% support electronic speed limiters and acceleration limiters on public roads.

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          There are probably 1000x more situations where you accelerate into a crash, rather than out of one. Slow cars are safe cars.

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            Just chiming in to say I see your point. Slower cars allow for more reaction time, and therefore safer reactions.

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    The cops need suicide drones to make killing people in electric cars safe again.