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

submitted 1 day 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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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 1 points 4 hours ago

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).