These things look even dumber as cop cars.
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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.
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.
This isn't a donation, this is free advertising for Musk to have the police rolling around Vegas in his trucks.
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 aren’t even waterproof.
That's why they are in Las Vegas
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.
Sounds like it is exactly doing what it should. Give the police more to do in the future.
Embracing the dystopian aesthetic.
Who else to blaze the trail than the enforcement arm?
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.
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.
I'm not convinced its appliance grade after the talks about it tarnishing
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.
There’s a jerryrigeverything video linked in the article. It barely holds up to a 9mm and falls to a .17.
How is this not false advertising?
When Musk does it is just puffery
Has anyone tried a pellet gun?
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.
Good the cops shouldn't be protected while they protect the status quo and serve as an enforcer of most things wrong.
They can't compete with a 20 year old crown vic
https://www.pontiacperformance.net/TechArticles/CV_BallisiticPanels.html
It's a sad joke.
Problem? Idk, personally I kinda prefer Nazis to not be bullet proof.
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.
I bet it looks great in the maintenance bay every three days.
Every speeder just driving up on the sidewalk to completely disable their pursuer.
“Ed, turn here. This road has speed bumps.”
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?
I see Elon Musk has a new venture: coffin making.
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
Shh!
Let them find out.
Good
I need more proof. I don't believe they aren't, someone prove it.
Originally, I thought the stainless steel cybertrucks were bulletproof, sad to see that it couldn't even take a hammer.
I mean they are, who in their right mind would shoot a police car!? But I guess that is America. Crazy
Someone who is or is about to be attacked or killed by the police I'd imagine.
Fly with the crows...