I feel like that’s probably the one thing a vehicle marketed as bullet-proof needs to be… like, actually bullet-proof.
These things look even dumber as cop cars.
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
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…”Sounds like it is exactly doing what it should. Give the police more to do in the future.
Oh, sweet summer child, you thought they were actually trying to reduce drug use?
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?
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?
Embracing the dystopian aesthetic.
Didn’t Las Vegas also buy his stupid loop?
yes and they commissioned him to build more recently.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Good the cops shouldn’t be protected while they protect the status quo and serve as an enforcer of most things wrong.
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.
Problem? Idk, personally I kinda prefer Nazis to not be bullet proof.
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
