LAPD Car of the FUTURE

[Hoser]

Ran across this today. LAPD's Patrol Car of the Future - PhotoGalleries - POLICE Magazine


https://www.facebook.com/FederalSignalFR?ref=ts&fref=ts

 

[JazzDad]

Broken link?

 

[Hoser]

Broken link?

Thanks should be working now.


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Photo's from Police The Law enforcement Magazine.and Federal Signal

 

[nerdly_dood]

It's got a Valor? I want a Vision SLR. Borin:blinkhuh: wait.


Do they have enough solar panels?

 

[Hoser]

It's got a Valor? I want a Vision SLR. Borin:blinkhuh: wait.



Do they have enough solar panels?

Got me wondering what the big brackets are for on the bar??

 

[Wailer]

Solar powered light bar? Does that mean more juice from the vehicle's electrical system can be used to power a mechanical siren?

 

[Hoser]

Im thinking the extra room on the brackets may be for additional lighting or plate readers. It would be great to have a video tho.

 

[exphillycop]

I don't get it....they used 3M wrap for better resale price, but completely altered the dashboard........maybe it's just me.

 

[lafd55]

Those brackets on the lightbar are for Motorola plate readers. And there is hardly anything futuristic on that vehicle except for the possible integrated computer interface which I have seen before done with the FedSig SS. The Motorola APX 09 control head is on the market already, as well as the lightbar, I do agree, definitely needs a Vision SLR(all the cool kids are using that) hahaha.

 

[philyumpshus]

It's funny this was posted because I was just thinking about a special I saw on TV from about 2003. It was a prototype "future police car" that was basically the same concept as this car- fully integrating everything with a computer. The funny part is that it was built on a Caprice and the computer took up half the trunk! I remember it had a Vision that was preprogrammed to run different light configurations and siren tones depending on the nature of the call. It had the ability to upload pictures to the internet via the dash camera. Everything in the car was voice activated. It's really weird to think that a smartphone from today can do the same thing that a computer the size of a Caprice trunk took just a decade ago.

 

[Muxlow]

Wonder what the police dept will do when they sell them.


Would they take out the computer and all that or what? Cant think of what COULD happen if they sold it, went to auction and someone grabs these up and BOOM! Nice computer system right there

 

[PJD642]

It's futuristic for me, because my Agency won't get that Motorola siren/radio combo for at least another 15 years....