New York City`s Police Department is entering the future. A next-generation NYPD patrol car prototype details seem straight off a sci-fi feature film.
The futuristic vehicle has a rear-mounted infrared sensor scanner, but more interestingly it is able to record and check license plates in real-time.The patrol car accesses a special database and if it finds anything sneaky about the license plates it checks notifies the officer.
Strangely enough, the prototype patrol car also has a new radiation detector in the rear window; could that mean the New York City Police Department is expecting radiation incidents to be so common in the future in order to have a sensor like that installed on-board its future patrol cars?
In other prototype features, a dashboard-mounted camera records video, which can be live-streamed to the NYPD`s headquarters via a self-safficient data connection; in fact there is a modem and power supply sitting in the trunk.
At this point, there is already one such prototype on New York`s streets even though it is currently unclear if the NYPD goes ahead and starts mass-implementing the technology developed on the prototype on its patrol cars (or replaces them all with the futuristic new ones based on that prototype for that matter).
