You ever been driving down the road when a crazed band of gangbangers rolled through your suburban neighborhood and blasted up the side of your truck with Uzis and Gatling guns for no reason? No, but you could easily imagine a scenario where that happens, right? Well, if your imagination became a reality, you’d need the only truck on the market that keeps pointing out it’s bulletproof for some reason.

Does your neighborhood have a billionaire who throws rocks at your truck window? No? Good, Cybertruck can’t handle that.

What if an anvil falls from the sky, or what if you drive into what seems to be a tunnel but turns out to be a realistic painting on the side of a mountain? It happens, dude—I’ve seen it on TV. Cybertruck could withstand that kind of stuff, but like, even more, Cybertruck is the only truck that will keep self-driving itself into the side of the mountain until it makes a real tunnel. In fact, Cybertruck could make a tunnel for a hyperloop from LA to San Francisco.

Edit: In case it isn’t clear, this is satire.

  • @tankplanker@lemmy.world
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    182 months ago

    Has this been independently verified as bullet proof by a reputable company? As I have zero trust in any assertions from Tesla based on their previous demos of this.

    • body_by_make
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      102 months ago

      That one guy who sniffs Andrew Tate’s farts tested it and it didn’t seem to do very well.

      • @SkyezOpen@lemmy.world
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        62 months ago

        To clarify on these two points, Adin Ross literally sniffed the chair Andrew tate sat on after an interview, and also shot the fuck out of his cybertruck and eventually penetrated the door.

    • ji59
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      82 months ago

      JerryRigEverything tested it and it stopped smaller bullets

      • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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        42 months ago

        Car doors in 1935 could stop a 38 special with FBI semi-wadcutter loads. They stopped so many bullets that the .357 magnum was developed. Tesla is failing to do something that cars were able to do 111 years ago.

    • BruceTwarzen
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      52 months ago

      There are videos that show it’s kinda bulletproof, but not really.

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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      32 months ago

      No. It’s not bulletproof. They proved that it’s not during their first demo where they tried to prove that it is. But for some reason they get to keep claiming that it is with zero repercussions.

    • @Furbag@lemmy.world
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      22 months ago

      Bulletproof vs small caliber rounds, and even then, it’s really more like bullet resistant because if you hit the same spot twice, the second round will punch through.

      • Everything is only ever bullet “resistant.” Have you ever seen the before/after picture of Fort Douaumont after the Battle of Verdun?

        Nothing is bullet proof. The CyberTruck is just more resistant than most, although I still don’t understand why. Sure he’s a QAnon nutjob, but I have to think it’s more secondary use for materials developed for SpaceX. They spent a bunch of time and money developing some interesting materials and decided to try to get more use it of it, and the whole bullet-proof bit was more attention-grabbing.