The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department recently received a donation of 10 Tesla Cybertrucks from a tech billionaire, fully wrapped, decaled with “TACTICAL VEHICLE” stickers, and kitted out for barricaded-shooter situations. The trucks carry ladders, hand-held ballistic shields, and all the aesthetic signals for serious, high-risk police work. At the unveiling, Sheriff Kevin McMahill touted […]
I feel like that’s probably the one thing a vehicle marketed as bullet-proof needs to be… like, actually bullet-proof.
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).