For starters, the new Cybertruck is only going to be used for the D.A.R.E.
anti-drug program rather than as a patrol car.
And, perhaps more oddly, the promo video uses music from theTerminatormovie franchise.
Police officers in Irvine, California, pose in front of the department’s new Tesla Cybertruck in a promotional video from Oct. 8, 2024.Screenshot: Irvine Police / Twitter
The truck will support our Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) program and community outreach efforts.
Hawthorne is a small municipality just south of Los Angeles where SpaceX and Tesla have large facilities.
They know the bad guy in the second movie is dressed up as a cop, right?
And that the movies are actually about how cops are bad?
TheTerminatorfilms are not really about the human race getting killed off by future machines, Cameron is quotedas saying.
They dehumanize the people they are sworn to protect and desensitize themselves to make it do that job.
Questions emailed to Irvine Police about the departments acquisition of the Cybertruck didnt immediately receive a response.
Gizmodo will update this post if we hear back.
Update, 9:25 p.m. News from the future, delivered to your present.
Three passengers were killed after a Xiaomi SU7 operating in driver assistance mode hit a concrete barrier.
