I feel like that’s probably the one thing a vehicle marketed as bullet-proof needs to be… like, actually bullet-proof.
Its OK, its a feature!
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
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.
I need more proof. I don’t believe they aren’t, someone prove it.
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.
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 mean they are, who in their right mind would shoot a police car!? But I guess that is America. Crazy
Today? Only an idiot.
In 2029, when Trump refuses to leave? Maybe lots of people.
Someone who is or is about to be attacked or killed by the police I’d imagine.
Fly with the crows…
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.
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.
Oh, sweet summer child, you thought they were actually trying to reduce drug use?
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.
Sounds like it is exactly doing what it should. Give the police more to do in the future.
Didn’t Las Vegas also buy his stupid loop?
And the entire city is going broke because of ridiculous costs and xenophobic policies towards tourists. Those tunnels will be homeless shelters in a few years.
yes and they commissioned him to build more recently.
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
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?
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.
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.
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
I kept reading and it was funny.
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.
They aren’t even waterproof.
That’s why they are in Las Vegas
I bet it looks great in the maintenance bay every three days.
Are you sure that’s the only problem?
The Musk phenomenon is so strange. I live in Canada, and I’ve made multiple people absolutely melt down over the smallest criticism of him.
Teach us your ways. This sounds almost blissful.
