I’d rather not need a bullet proof car…
Fun fact: The windows are not bulletproof. Also the most common rifle in the US is the AR-15… and the cybertruck’s doors are decidedly NOT resistant againt .223/5.56x45mm rounds. And if they’re using green tips or even regular FMJ rounds, you can forget about any semblance of protection.
I was shooting thicker steel than that yesterday with cheapo .223, went through it like butter. The bullets are hilariously small, but they’re hauling ass at 3,400FPS.
People don’t realize just how penetrative .223 is. And the stuff you are firing is civilian grade stuff. Imagine some VIP was driving a cyber truck thinking he is safe and some guys with actual military ammunition fired at him. His car might as well be made of paper mache.
Yeah military 5.56 will go through cinderblocks. Maybe not in a perfect straight line but modern military rounds would chew up any car, even the lame cybertruck.
Basically unless you’re behind the engine block or axel (the dense metal parts of the car) assault rifle rounds are gonna get through. Don’t hide behind cars.
This is obviously such a ridiculous, cluelessly macho thing. For one, this isn’t the type of durability that matters to 99% of customers. It’s a bit more important that you know, the car doesn’t lock you out suddenly, lose body panels, have a catastrophic suspension failure, you know. Then, if it did somehow matter if your car is bulletproof, attackers aren’t going to be aiming at the body of the car, they would be shooting through the windows and windshield.
Materials that are actually bulletproof to anything more than 22LR and birdshot don’t dent like this.
Obligatory… The Cyber truck is not rated as bullet proof. This footage was most likely produced with cartridges that have just enough gun powder to cycle the gun’s action. Actual bulletproof vehicles are way more expensive.
This footage was most likely produced with cartridges that have just enough gun powder to cycle the gun’s action.
Frankly, it’s probably not even that much. They probably used a bolt action and really light powder loads. I’d say maybe it’s a .22 but the dents look big for that.
Edit: Someone else posted this a JerryRigEverything video- it apparently stops .22 and 9mm. I’m pretty surprised.
Pellet gun dude
Good enough to run over all the liberal protestors!
Looking it up, the doors are 1.8mm steel. At a 90 degree angle that’s enough to stop underpowered 9mm rounds reliably. It will stop most normal rounds fired at it, and especially start letting a lot through in areas with repeated stress. The second you hot load a round, use a heavy projectile or any kind of round with more potential than standard FMJ it’s all going through.
And that has to be the right kind of steel too. Which is more expensive. So yeah I’m pretty sure they used underpowered rounds at the very least to create this visual.
Checked brandon herrera. Seems like its bullet resistant and can handle non hot or ap loads from 9mm and below pistols and that’s it. Still hard to believe since there’s all info is from big tech platforms and big youtubers who are all famous for their jorunalistic integrity.
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1/4 inch is for armor that you want to be able trust and keep using. 3/16 inch or 4 mm will be the bare minimum for one time use. The Cyber truck is 1.8 mm.
Seems like it is some stronger alloy that is resistant to pistol fire. Brendon herrera seemed to do a semi independent test.
He also got a door given to him specifically to test. Which is suspect too.
Ah I missed that part.
Definitely a scam. Seemed thicker too
The cybertruck is an completely obese but not heavy enough to be bulletproof.
Bullets go through trees like they aren’t there. What makes you think the stainless steel body panels thata are as thick as
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the steel used in literally every car is somehow bullet proof?
because most car panels aren’t steel as that’s a. dangerously bad choice compared to aluminium.
They are definetly steel cause aluminium is very expensive. Otherwise cars wouldn’t rust.
Can conform cyber truck is not bulletproof. It didnt stop anything that we shot at. It.
Didnt Aiden Ross shoot his with a 9mm? Like hes a dumbass but he actually gave good data on that one.
I’ve seen others do the same tests and anything above a 22. Goes right through
Are the bullet holes shopped on instead of shot on?
It looks like the same hole with the same shadows pasted all over the car.
The spread is also weird. Not random, not cluster. Like someone tried to evenly space them, but only on the door panels.
There have been a lot of videos of proud Cybertruck owners shooting up their own car doors to own the libs. And I wish any part of that was a joke. Just search youtube.
This is likely the result of one of those “tests” using the lowest-grain hollow-point 9mm rounds they could find so they can drive around feeling invincible until they have to spend a large portion of the vehicle’s cost on new doors. And in this case, new body panels as well because aiming is for cucks I guess. But it’s okay because the primary consumer of Cybertrucks are crypto-bros who found themselves on the top of the pyramid/edge of the bubble and have more entitlement and money than sense and will just buy another.
I hate it here.
Considering the Cybertruck is just a standard stainless steel alloy, I’d ask why they aren’t just buying sheet from a metal yard to test, but I already know the answer.
They can’t tell the difference between us laughing at them and us becoming enraged by them, they’re just like mistreated dogs who have learned they can get attention by pissing on the floor and any kind of attention will do.
I genuinely think algo based social media ruined a people who use it as their primary way they interact with other people. Any attention, good or bad, means ENGAGEMENT. We’ve commodified the behavior that kids who can’t disguise between good and bad behavior.
A lot of the most pernicious and insidious effects of the social media algorithm have a lot to do with unchecked capitalism just turning everyone’s attention span into currency that can be infinitely divided and pulled apart.
Aside from the fact that you’d be funding the nazis, it’s so fucking ugly…
Beauty is subjective. Nazis are not.
Beauty may be subjective, but a very small number of subjects find the Cybertruck to be beautiful.
Maybe a hot take, but I thought it looked cool in the concept images (though those are obviously unburdened by the constraints of reality). Unfortunately, so much of that sleekness it was originally going for was killed by the time the physical product went into production, and the low build quality is very apparent from pretty much any photos of one you can find.
I guess to each their own. To me, it always looked like a fiberglass shell put on an El Camino in a 1980s straight-to-VHS Mad Max ripoff movie.
Ironically, that would make it a better and more reliable vehicle.
I know of no one who think’s that’s an attractive car. it must be the exception.
Looks cool, has many flaws. I’ll wait for v2
Von Braun already beat him to it.
I don’t want a rocket i want an electric vehicle that sort of reminds me of the warthog from halo
And you know what, I’m a fan of the rugged look with the brushed steel and all that. I just can’t get past the lines, they are so terrible. It really looks like a kid drew it but in a bad way. If they’d made it square it would be nice imho
It’s like he was trying to draw a Delorian from memory and forgot it wasn’t a truck.
Honestly if I had to have a notoriously unreliable car, I’d pick a Delorian over this any day.
At least the Delorian can be dressed up like in BTTF.
It looks like the car from the video for “You Got Lucky Babe” by Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers
They are ugly, but I’d love to have them on some zombie apocalypse survival games ^^
At this point, do any companies seriously see the cybertruck as “competition”?
SAAB. Maybe.
Sorry, I don’t see cybertrucks getting off the ground.
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Nobody wants to replicate or compete against the Cybertruck directly, but it is the first production car to implement several key technologies like steer by wire a 48v low voltage system rather than traditional 12v one. Tesla has had a lot longer to develop these than the competition, but ultimately Elon’s stupid design and love affair with Trump mean Tesla won’t succeed commercially from these innovations.
At least they didn’t try shooting through the bulletproof windows. They woulda killed the driver.
Why the fuck would 99% of people need to think about bullets hitting their car?
When in America…
Sneezes in American.
Sadly, it is not bulletproof enough to save black Americans from a hail of police bullets.
do they sneeze bullets in America? wouldn’t be surprised
Yep. It’s why we don’t cover our mouths when we sneeze.
so that’s why Americans said they can’t breathe in a mask, their version was bullet proof
Good for taking kids to school and bringing them home
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Testing? Testing with what? The cheapest crappiest frangible 9mm they could find?
The real ballsy move is riding two wheels, where I’m going I don’t need imaginary armor panels around me.
“Technically” bulletproof (in that some parts can’t have holes poked through them by bullets), can’t drive through sand or mud.
Very apocalypse-proof.
Ah, that’s why there are never any cybertrucks in Mad Max.
Ha! Elsewhere in this thread I described the Cybertruck as it’s always looked to me- a fiberglass shell over an El Camino in a bad 1980s straight-to-VHS Mad Max ripoff movie.
Not only that but from what I’ve heard all Teslas have issues with rain and going through car washes. This is not a car company this is a tech company that tried to make cars. The only reason they have succeeded thus far is because none of the actual car makers were outputting electric vehicles seriously. Now that they are Tesla is doomed cause they’re absolute shit at designing automobiles.
Tarpenning and Eberhard actually knew what they were doing (or at least who to listen to) and the Tesla might have been a decent car under their leadership. Neither of them were auto engineers, but they were both way into cars. But we’re not in that timeline. Musk clearly knows nothing about cars.
“Competinion” in the EU are shitting themselves laughing at this joke of a vehicle.
There is no “competition” in the EU because this deathtrap isn’t allowed on many of the roads here.
I can attest I have never seen a cybertruck and we are pretty EV heavy. Teslas are even getting rarer since they are built so shit they can’t handle the winter and salted roads.
Even us in America. This is a joke of a car made by a joke of a person.
The fuck they shoot it with? Paintballs?
it’d be a neat idea if cars actually regularly had to interact with projectiles! y’know what cars DO have to interact ALL THE TIME?
water.
In fact, when they do interact with other projectiles, those projectiles are other cars. But I guess no one knew crumple zones could be so complicated.
