LINCOLN, Neb. (KLKN) – Tragedy struck in New Orleans on Wednesday as an electrical pickup truck rammed into crowds of individuals on Bourbon Avenue.
Mechanical barricades had been put in round Bourbon Avenue however weren’t functioning and had been being repaired in preparation for the Tremendous Bowl.
“These metallic bollards actually come up from the bottom to forestall a automobile from gaining sufficient velocity to trigger the form of mass harm that we noticed this morning,” Rep. Troy Carter of Louisiana stated.
Police say the terrorist drove a Ford pickup truck onto the sidewalk to keep away from different barricades in place.
“So we knew that these had been malfunctioned,” New Orleans Police Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick stated. “So we did certainly have a plan. However the terrorist defeated it.”
Since 2018, the share of U.S. automobile gross sales which are electrical autos has risen 75%.
However researchers on the College of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Midwest Roadside Security Facility stated many of the nation’s barricades are usually not constructed to cease electrical autos.
Not one of the researchers responded to interview requests on Wednesday, however they’ve beforehand stated that electrical autos outweigh gas-powered autos by hundreds of kilos and may speed up faster.
“Electrical autos are a brand new form of a menace,” Cody Stolle, the assistant director of the power, stated. “The largest and most necessary issue that’s being carried out to enhance these barrier techniques proper now’s enhance their capability.”
UNL has labored with the Division of Protection for about 10 years on numerous initiatives to guard from automobile assaults.
Final yr, the workforce acquired a $2.2 million grant to analysis the right way to defend U.S. army bases from electrical automobile assaults.
Engineers are creating obstacles that may higher deal with assaults from EVs.
The analysis workforce stated its work won’t solely assist forestall intentional assaults but additionally save lives throughout accidents.
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