San Francisco Police Department clarified that it would not seek to arm any of its robots with firearms but rather with explosives as an "intermediate force option" that could prove to be lethal.
Lmao, I was naïve enough to think this wasn’t really gonna happen, and the libs weren’t gonna go and endorse dollar store Robocop, but :yea:
Dean Preston remains a tiny dot of light in California politics:
"We’re talking about a sniper in a fully occupied hotel, and the solution... would be to put a bomb-bearing robot to blow up that hotel?" Preston asked about the Vegas scenario. Of the suicide bomber, he asked, “We’re going to use a robot with a bomb to subdue a suicide bomber?”
Just amazing to think the levels of violence that are going to be unleashed on poor people in the next 20 years.
Who would win?
$35,000,000 police super robot made with millions of manhours of highly specialized, professional scientists using the absolute peak of technological development
OR
half a cup of dirt in your pocket, value negligible, available in almost any place on earth
The efficacy of the tactical advantage provided by Pocket Sand continues to prove itself in real-world combat situations