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.
I don’t see a problem with that. Do people really want police to be unstoppable?
Oops. Who could’ve seen that one coming?
Shhhh…
That’s far from the only problem…
they are giant charcuterie saw though.
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.
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
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.”
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.
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…”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.
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?
Sounds like it is exactly doing what it should. Give the police more to do in the future.
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?
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
