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.
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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).
The Sheriff is a fucking moron then, who hasn't done the most cursory due dilligence, a brief internet search as a sanity check.
Like, I hear you, I get the whole concept of information silos / different segments of the hyperreality...
... But it also just actually is utter incompetence, objectively.
There are at least a 100 videos of people shooting at these cybertrucks with various calibers from various ranges. Thats either the same or better quality research than most police organizations produce, other than pre-Trump FBI.
Sheriff should be fired, its his job to know.
Oops. Who could've seen that one coming?
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 don't see a problem with that. Do people really want police to be unstoppable?
Shhhh........
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..."
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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
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
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.
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.
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This isn't a donation, this is free advertising for Musk to have the police rolling around Vegas in his trucks.
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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.
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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."
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
That's far from the only problem....
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.
Are you sure that's the only problem?
Its OK, its a feature!
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