• veee
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    5010 months ago

    Gallacher later told 404 Media that the email was something of “a joke,” but reaffirmed the agency’s wish to obtain a Cybertruck before other agencies, even if more for “community engagement” than using it as a patrol vehicle.

    In other words, we have too much money.

  • @DJDarren@thelemmy.club
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    1510 months ago

    Anyone who doesn’t think that the end goal for the Cybertruck isn’t military/police contracts hasn’t really been paying attention to how tech firms grow.

    I’m mostly surprised that no US police departments have any of them yet.

  • @NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de
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    910 months ago

    I don’t think that PS1 model of a car will ever look acceptable to me. It’s not a design that grows on you or you get accustomed to. It’s just bad.

  • PrivateNoob
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    510 months ago

    Hot take, but this police cybertruck looks pretty rad tbh, putting the obvious real life issues aside tho.

    • prole
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      10 months ago

      Looks like what “the future” looked like in the 80s and early 90s. Like Total Recall or BttF Pt. 2

      • @DJDarren@thelemmy.club
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        310 months ago

        Elon basically saw the Robocop action toys from the ‘90s and thought “Yes, I want that to be real”.

    • CALIGVLA
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      610 months ago

      Eh. Looks like a generic sci-fi movie reject.