I feel like that’s probably the one thing a vehicle marketed as bullet-proof needs to be… like, actually bullet-proof.
Shhhh…
Embracing the dystopian aesthetic.
Who else to blaze the trail than the enforcement arm?
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.
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
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.
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.
They aren’t even waterproof.
That’s why they are in Las Vegas
Flash floods are a real threat in Vegas.
Are you sure that’s the only problem?
The original design had a 3/16" stainless shell and some very special glass, especially the windshield. I know that the production model is just a similar-shaped cast aluminum Tesla frame with appliance-grade stainless sheets glued to it. It’s basically a different vehicle from what they showed off.
A youtube creator showed what the said was a production car being shot with various calibers, the .22 barely dented it and if I remember right it resisted everything up to .45. My issue with that is I’ve seen the body panels and seen people proving its just the same stainless that a refrigerator has, and about the thickness of any car door, and I put .22 rnds threw both of them many times.
Has anyone tried a pellet gun?
I wanna try see a tesla trebuchet video. I should probably clarify; I mean I want to see a cyber truck launched by a huge trebuchet. Honestly that would be a terrifying weapon. As bad as diseased corpses being launched over castle walls, anyways.
How is this not false advertising?
When Musk does it is just puffery
There’s a jerryrigeverything video linked in the article. It barely holds up to a 9mm and falls to a .17.
I’m not convinced its appliance grade after the talks about it tarnishing
Oops. Who could’ve seen that one coming?
They can’t compete with a 20 year old crown vic
https://www.pontiacperformance.net/TechArticles/CV_BallisiticPanels.html
It’s a sad joke.
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
They are just about as bullet proof as the cars are self driving. Dunno why anyone might think that they would actually be bullet proof, given Musk’s track record…
/s
Every speeder just driving up on the sidewalk to completely disable their pursuer.
“Ed, turn here. This road has speed bumps.”
Its OK, its a feature!
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?
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.
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.
