NYC spent almost $1M on robots to patrol the subway…
This week, the New York Police Department rolled out several robots to patrol Times Square and the city’s subway system to fight crime.
According to the New York Post, this includes two “Digi-dogs,” which cost nearly $750,000. Another egg-shaped robot can patrol the subway system to detect people in the subway during restricted hours and “is equipped with more than a dozen microphones and a 360-degree HD camera, as well as sonar and lidar sensors,” as well as a license plate reader.
Full article, HERE.
Anybody want to bet how long it will be before they are ‘tagged’, damaged, or destroyed?
If you follow the twitter links, there are already comments on how to ‘kill’ the dogs by pulling the batteries…
Sigh…
What will they be looking for?
Crimes that won’t be prosecuted?
Who is their real target?
Stupid is as Stupid does! Nobody said the Mayor and the rest of the politicians in New York were intelligent people. Wasting money on dogs with no bite and running on batteries is rather the stupid.
You want to restore order in NYC, you’re gonna need RoboCop and a whole bunch of modified (to go up and down stairs) ED-209s.
Bet the third rail will play hell with the electronics when they “lose their footing” on the platform up there.
Now Breaking!
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I guess it will depend on how many cops are hired to watch the robots. If the robots do not have police officers within 50 feet of them, they’ll be gone in less than 8 hours.
Remember the story about the bomb that someone stole the timer out of? That was NYC.
Does anyone else hear those things saying “Exterminate!”?
All- Interesting points… Yes, John, I remember that.
Or how long before the subway bot is pushed onto the tracks. Also think of what a few yards of paracord could do to the robo-dogs.
Pushed onto the tracks – first thing I thought of!
Look at these as an opportunity to learn what weapons we need to acquire to neutralize them when they start deploying ARMED versions.
And THAT is why everyone needs some M2AP rounds for their .30-06.
Um, you DO have a .30-06, don’t you?
Fin- Hours? Minutes???
Dan- Those methods are already posted… LOL
After the first one goes down, they’ll attach a plunger, Taser and little armored balls to it.