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Las Vegas Police Touted New “Bulletproof” Cybertrucks. The Only Problem? They Aren’t Bulletproof. (fuelarc.com)

submitted 20 hours ago by KayLeadfoot@fedia.io to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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I feel like that's probably the one thing a vehicle marketed as bullet-proof needs to be... like, actually bullet-proof.

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[–] VicksVaporBBQrub@sh.itjust.works 48 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] BanMe@lemmy.world 14 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 7 points 3 hours ago

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.

[–] bonenode@piefed.social 1 points 2 hours ago

Sounds like it is exactly doing what it should. Give the police more to do in the future.