Taycan driver wanted after back-to-back hits and run at 3 am in Los Angeles - Video

[tchavei]

I bet the Police could subpoena the information from Porsche, which Taycan sedan in the LA area, or even California, reported airbag deployment or other errors +/- 30 minutes of the timestamp on the video. Unlikely there have been that many Taycans that crashed during that hour.

Is it worth it though?

For what we saw, the guy crashed into 2 vehicles. Here it would be considered 2 road accidents + 2 crimes of hit and run. The police wouldn't care much about the first 2 and since only property was harmed, the case would most likely be assigned to a trainee or intern.
Now add to that that metadata (cell tower info, etc) isn't available under current privacy laws here, there wouldn't be much to go after unless the police would get creative and/or spend lots of man hours on this. I'm sure they have more important stuff to deal with.

By the way, the article says it occurred on the night of June 17th... That was two weeks ago. They didn't find the guy so far?

 

[whitex]

Is it worth it though?

For what we saw, the guy crashed into 2 vehicles. Here it would be considered 2 road accidents + 2 crimes of hit and run. The police wouldn't care much about the first 2 and since only property was harmed, the case would most likely be assigned to a trainee or intern.
Now add to that that metadata (cell tower info, etc) isn't available under current privacy laws here, there wouldn't be much to go after unless the police would get creative and/or spend lots of man hours on this. I'm sure they have more important stuff to deal with.

By the way, the article says it occurred on the night of June 17th... That was two weeks ago. They didn't find the guy so far?

They don't need metadata from cell towers. Porsche servers get almost continuous car status. I bet emergency assistance signal got activated too once airbags deployed. The police just needs to know which car to look at for damage.

As for property crimes not being high on the list of priorities for law enforcement, is it all property (e.g. someone burned down a garage full of government vehicles when nobody was inside, so nobody got hurt) or only private property crimes that your government doesn't care about prosecuting?

 

[tchavei]

They don't need metadata from cell towers. Porsche servers get almost continuous car status. I bet emergency assistance signal got activated too once airbags deployed. The police just needs to know which car to look at for damage.

As for property crimes not being high on the list of priorities for law enforcement, is it all property (e.g. someone burned down a garage full of government vehicles when nobody was inside, so nobody got hurt) or only private property crimes that your government doesn't care about prosecuting?

No idea tbh. I do remember they taking fingerprints when our garage was assaulted but immediately said they only used them for "blood crimes" so never found the perpetrators. They did "clean out" 8 cars at the time.

 

[Archimedes]

Driver clearly drunk. Fuck him.

I got crushed by a hit and run drunk driver 20 years ago. Fuck him.

 

[whitex]

No idea tbh. I do remember they taking fingerprints when our garage was assaulted but immediately said they only used them for "blood crimes" so never found the perpetrators. They did "clean out" 8 cars at the time.

I suspect this was an exaggeration from the officer. It's more of a magnitude of damage vs. resources committed to solve the crime, with violent crimes being considered higher damage. I guarantee if a gang swiped a hundred million euros from banking machines across the country for example, they'd be taking fingerprints from the machines even if not a single drop of blood was spilled in the process. Unless of course you have an ultra woke government which believes thefts are just a form of social justice, then it's time to move IMO.

 

[TDinDC]

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https://www.taycanforum.com/forum/threads/i-smashed-my-front-end-and-repaired-it-myself.16343/

 

[Deleted member 4616]

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Ha-ha, so whereabouts in Romania is California?

 

[rs_lan]

I'm not sure but I think the car just got posted on FB - porsche taycan owners club...

 

[rs_lan]

I'm not sure but I think the car just got posted on FB - porsche taycan owners club...

I'm not sure but I think the car just got posted on FB - porsche taycan owners club...

 

[tigerbalm]

Is that damage not on the wrong side ?

 

[WuffvonTrips]

Wing mirrors are different too.

 

[submatrix]

Hard to tell from the lighting but I think the one in the video is a Chalk. Making us Chalk owners look bad

 

[feye]

https://abc7.com/lapd-hit-and-run-investigation-porsche-taycan-caught-on-video/13435279/

My Taycan for sure would have given me the "electrical system error, Stop vehicle in a safe place"!