I feel like that’s probably the one thing a vehicle marketed as bullet-proof needs to be… like, actually bullet-proof.
Wait until the first LEO can’t get out of one of these when it catches on fire.
Musk will STILL be treated with kid gloves. We simply cannot hold billionaires to the same standards.
Wait, people didn’t know that?
Various guntubers and social media influencers have been shooting up cybertrucks for like, 2 years now.
Yeah, it might stop an average pistol round from a moderate distance.
Close up? Probably not as much.
More serious, higher velocity pistol round? Also not so much.
Hits the glass? Yeah that shit ain’t bulletproof at all.
Rifle round? Swiss cheese.
… I’m confused people weren’t already widely aware of the cybertruck’s near total non-bulletproofness.
The Sheriff whose officers are presumably being trained that it is Bulletproof with a big B, that guy doesn’t know.
It’s an information-environment thing. If you go far enough to the right in the USA, you get a very different set of information sources.
Those information sources think the Cybertruck is bulletproof, because Elon said that it was (we actually talk about that piece in the article).
Oops. Who could’ve seen that one coming?
I don’t see a problem with that. Do people really want police to be unstoppable?
Shhhh…
Yeah. A vehicle known for trapping occupants when damaged, then burning them alive. Are you sure that’s the kind of vehicle you want to be in when it gets shot at?
That is exactly the kind of vehicle I want ICE to find themselves in. Makes em’ melt like butter.
Not melt like ice?
It was right there.
Tbf, they’re probably left handed.
Fun facts I’ve gathered up…
- 10 Cybertrucks were donated to Las Vegas police.
- Las Vegas haven’t noted whether to keep or sell them.
- Any vehicle going into police duty must be “upfitted” aka upgraded with a police package (lights, siren, comms, armor, etc).
- Police prefer a certain known standard performance vehicle specs for duty (horsepower, towing, speed, mass, manuvrrability, etc). Teslas are too young to have demonstrated anything of this.
- Some out-of-spec police cars (e.g.- retired, siezed, donated) might get another use as community outreach vehicles (D.A.R.E. cars).
- Article states an upfitting company named UP.FIT {corrected name} Las Vegas, aka UNPLUGGED PERFORMANCE ®. They are not a preferred public service vehicle upfitter, as they ONLY modify Teslas and only Teslas for contract.
- Sheriff McMahill is an uneducated media regurgitator.
Wait they’re still doing DARE after it was shown to increase drug use among teens?
DARE is where I learned to make crack, and made my list of drugs I wanted to try.
A sociology professor of mine worked her first job for Rand. Her assignment was to determine the effectiveness of DARE. She found that it was only effective on eighth grade boys. Rand thanked her, paid her, and shelved the report, because this was the Reagan era.
So many reports of studies have been shelved by companies, let alone the government. It’d be fascinating to go through them.
DARE in wikipedia…
“…In 2002, D.A.R.E. had an annual budget of over $10 million…”
“…in 2012. The new program is called “Keepin’ it REAL” and focuses less on lectures and more on interactive activities, such as practicing refusal and saying no to pressure.[9] It is now less explicitly focused on opposition to drugs, with the broader aim of teaching good decision-making…”It brings in money, so of course they’re keeping it alive. They’re trying to rebrand it, supposedly helping kids avoid standard teen stuff like suicide, etc. They had a table set up outside of Walgreens a while back. They were well-trained and aggressive, but I’ve spent a lifetime in sales, much of it training people for that same kind of bullshit, so I have no problem blowing them off. Politely, I’m not a monster, but…No thanks.
Sounds like it is exactly doing what it should. Give the police more to do in the future.
Oh, sweet summer child, you thought they were actually trying to reduce drug use?
That’s far from the only problem…
These things look even dumber as cop cars.
robocop was supposed to be absurd and cautionary :(
It was a satire, but the wrong people took it as aspirational
Just like Starship Troopers.
But…but… They are doing their part, right?
Ready for Blues Brothers 2
To pursue the Blues Brothers, filmmakers bought more than 60 old police cars at $400 [ $1,573 today] apiece, according to news reports at the time
I need more proof. I don’t believe they aren’t, someone prove it.
Probably not what you’re looking for, but…
I appreciate you, Gollum, and I agree that that is a great video…
… Which is why that video is linked in the article under the heading:
“Cybertrucks Are Not Bulletproof. Watch This Guy Shoot Holes in One to Prove It.”
The funny thing about them not being bulletproof will be the batteries getting pierced setting off a fire while they’re locked in.
I love that for them
It probably doesn’t matter if they are actually bulletproof. They’ll be used as propaganda show cars, or personal vehicles for the brass, and never called into actual service.
No one in their right mind is going to pick the “bulletproof” cybertruck over an armored Bearcat in a scenario where they expect to be shot at. For non-tactical applications they’re no more or less bulletproof than a standard potrol vehicle.
For non-tactical applications they’re no more or less bulletproof
You sure about that? I mean, they’re made of thin stainless steel glued to a plastic shell.
Yeah. Any car that isn’t armored should be assumed 0% bulletproof. I wouldn’t trust a car door to protect me from a .22.
The engine block is the only thing on a regular cop car that would reliably stop, deflect, or at least slow most bullets.
I think you missed the whoosh
And yet it also missed on cybertruck.
Imagine being a billionaire in the mood to be generous and making a large donation… and that’s the best you can come up with. Giving 10 cars to the police. WTF.
This isn’t a donation, this is free advertising for Musk to have the police rolling around Vegas in his trucks.
And their business, the guys “up fitting” these cyber trucks. Which they ONLY “upfit” Tesla’s.
The police were probably about to open an investigation into said billionaire for child sex trafficking. Sadly, all of the evidence just suddenly went missing.
It wasn’t musk that donated them. It’s the owner of the business that “upfit” them, and for the record, they’re contracted to ONLY “up fit” Tesla’s.
So? Why are you telling me? I didn’t say it was muskrat. Nobody mentioned him in this thread until after I posted.
Cause I’m saying it’s simpler than that. It’s just advertising for the business to his clientele. That clientele would include right wing “back the blue” types that would love to own a truck that some unspecified swat type team trusts. But if they ever actually use these vehicles for that purpose, it’ll backfire.
No, you were telling me, a person that didn’t imply that it was muskrat, that it wasn’t muskrat. Then you make an unsubstantiated claim of who it was. The linked article doesn’t say he donated them. You didn’t provide any evidence for your claim beyond an implied, “Trust me bro.” So my perfectly reasonable conclusion is that you misread the article in the same way you misread my original comment.
Read the article again. It says they were donated by UP.FIT.
Where? All I see is,
The founder of UP FIT, the company that modified the Las Vegas police Cybertrucks, posted a hype video on Twitter showing off the work
That doesn’t mean that they’re the source of the money that paid for the trucks.
And you still have not addressed the fact that 👏I 👏did 👏not 👏say 👏it 👏was 👏muskrat.
ETA: The company is only mentioned three times in the article. The quote above, plus
According to the UP FIT Founder, the Las Vegas PD Cybertruck Doors Are Factory Stock
and
If the Las Vegas Sheriff and even the UP FIT founder thinks that Cybertrucks can stop bullets by default, there’s a reason for that.
So, no, it absolutely does NOT say
they were donated by UP.FIT.
How could something go missing when it never existed. Musk has never molested a child. That’s all I have to post right or do you want a thing about how he’s good at video games as well no ats perfect alright they’ll post automatically in a minute or two unga gonna get some coffee
This is who you’re defending.
You’re silly
Not as silly as the fucking Nazi you people are defending.
Chance 3 to actually read my comment?
The rule of the contemporary internet is to assume sarcasm is dead. My apologies if you’re the one keeping it alive.
If not, fuck a Nazi.
See, a lot of people don’t like to put the /s but sometimes it’s required. I read it the way you meant it, but I could easily see how people wouldn’t see the satire, as it’s a bit on the nose. If you wanna do satire or sarcasm, you really should throw in at least one part that is truly absurd to let people know it’s not actually defense, or throwing quotes around it if you’re wanting to be more subtle. Also you need more exclamation points if you’re going to mock the right.
I kept reading and it was funny.
Its OK, its a feature!
