KayLeadfoot@fedia.io to Not The Onion@lemmy.world · 1 month agoLas Vegas Police Touted New “Bulletproof” Cybertrucks. The Only Problem? They Aren’t Bulletproof.fuelarc.comexternal-linkmessage-square24linkfedilinkarrow-up13arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up13arrow-down1external-linkLas Vegas Police Touted New “Bulletproof” Cybertrucks. The Only Problem? They Aren’t Bulletproof.fuelarc.comKayLeadfoot@fedia.io to Not The Onion@lemmy.world · 1 month agomessage-square24linkfedilinkfile-text
I feel like that’s probably the one thing a vehicle marketed as bullet-proof needs to be… like, actually bullet-proof.
minus-squareKayLeadfoot@fedia.ioOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month agoThe 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).
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).