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

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    26 days ago

    OK I hate the guy and this “vehicle” too, but this is a weird take.

    Like if they bought Fords or Hyundais or whatever II wouldn’t consider it a handout; not getting why this would be?

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      26 days ago

      Well, basically all Elon does derives a ton of money from the government…

      The cybertruck is objectively bad, I see no reason that car would be selected for police use which makes me think the “invisible” hand of the market (ahem, lobbying, bribing, etc) was involved

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        26 days ago

        I see no reason that car would be selected

        Then shouldn’t your objection be with whoever did the selecting?

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          I’ve seen too many times when the people doing the selecting do a good job just to be overridden by the paid-for bureaucrat

          But I’m just spitballing here, I have no evidence other than then strong doubt these cars could perform any regular job (they seem to be a poorly planned novelty item)

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            26 days ago

            look they’ll do fine as long as they have a fleet of ford pickups to pull them out of mud puddles.