Town of Irvine, California’s police division formally launched its cringy new Tesla Cybertruck on Tuesday to the general public in probably the most cringe approach doable: a dorky video that includes theme music from “The Terminator,” a franchise that famously portrays cops in a poor gentle.
First noticed by Gizmodo, Irvine Police posted movies to Twitter and Fb showcasing the truck. The minute-long video is simply as sphincter clenching as you’d count on. It reveals the Cybertruck rolling out to the Terminator theme music. For some purpose there’s smoke for the Cybertruck to drive by way of earlier than the truck stops and is joined by Irvine Cops who awkwardly pose with the truck, full with cyborg-like smiles. The video ends with customized thunder and lightning graphics created for the truck that reads “Irvine Police Cybertruck.” I assume we’re all purported to go “hell yeah!” at that time.
Irvine Police are doubling down on the division’s reasoning for spending effectively over six figures on this electrical pickup. Within the video description, the division says the truck is for group engagement, particularly for officer help with the DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Training) program.
The truck will help our Drug Abuse Resistance Training (DARE) program and group outreach efforts. Whereas the absolutely geared up car gained’t be used as a patrol automobile, it could reply to emergencies and help the group when wanted. For over three a long time, our DARE officers have pushed attention-grabbing and one-of-a-kind autos that by no means fail to show heads and excite college students.
Regardless of the division saying that this will probably be for group engagement, the truck has been divisive. Again in September, public information confirmed the division dropped over $150,000 on the electrical truck. Issues didn’t look significantly better when it was additionally revealed that the division tried to maintain the precise buy quantity secret. And never everyone seems to be shopping for the division’s reasoning that the truck is for group engagement. Some specialists imagine the cash spent on the Cybertruck and its legislation enforcement modifications ought to have been truly spent on, you realize, the group.
The truck being part of the DARE program doesn’t assist issues both. As Gizmodo identified, research have proven this system doesn’t work. It additionally doesn’t look as if Irvine PD truly acquired correct licensing to make use of “The Terminator” music within the video; the division talked about in a press release to Gizmodo that “The video was used on our socials and music credit score was given to the artist.” Between the general public backlash, this cringe video and a doable copyright violation, it appears like this Cybertruck is already turning out to be much less of a plus for the division and extra of a headache.
This story initially appeared on Jalopnik, our sister website, on Wednesday, October 9.
