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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Especially in an electric car. Battery fire is no joke.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

More mass as well, which will take more energy to stop and will destroy whatever it's flung into.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

You don't do a PIT without wanting to kill the person in the car. The cops want it to be deadly.

It's hilariously dangerous for everyone involved, but mostly for the person getting slammed into by an armored cop car.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Seems like the kind of thing that was originally intended as a last resort that cops decided should be their second choice instead.