Modified Subarus have done this. Really anything that can hold 200+ but range becomes an issue at those speeds. You would need to plan routes and do math or add a tank and be a driving phenomenon
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sexual_tomato@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Get a hellcat, live in an area with a long straight section of interstate (i10 in Texas works well) , only commit one crime with the car.
Most police choppers have a max speed of 140mph. The hellcat can sustain 180.
redsand@infosec.pub 4 weeks ago
treadful@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
Hasn’t this actually happened a few times in LA? The hellcats outrunning the helicopters, I mean.
Shit, that experience might be worth the jail time.
LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
At 180mph you only have to encounter one panicked bystander to cause a few deaths, including your own.
Even the best driver in the world shares the road with everyone else.
captcha_incorrect@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
This reminds me of my parents explaning to me as a kid that even if you are the best driver in the world, everyone else is not and they cannot read your mind. So it would still be dangerous.
Vandals_handle@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Pick a top professional international level motorsport like F1, NHRA, MotoGP. They have the best vehicles and drivers in the world. Mostly competing on closed courses with unidirectional flow. Still regularly have equipment failure and misjudgment lead to collisions. On a race course everyone agrees to the heightened level of risk.
sexual_tomato@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
There are police videos of it happening all over YouTube. I first saw a guy running from the law eastbound from Houston. The helicopter couldn’t go fast enough.
cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
That seems like the kind of problem that a radio and a spike belt were designed to solve.