This Is Why You Do not Really Shoot One

• In a video that is gone viral on social media, a purported Tesla Cybertruck proprietor is seen firing a pistol on the supposedly “bulletproof” automobile.
• It did not work out the best way he needed.
• Unhappiness and remorse ensured. 

This is the factor in regards to the claims across the Tesla Cybertruck’s chrome steel physique panels being supposedly bulletproof: I do not suppose that is one thing you wish to deliberately attempt to confirm with a automobile that prices round $100,000. You might simply be higher off taking Elon Musk’s phrase for it as a substitute and saving the rounds for the taking pictures vary, or on the very least, for the rusted-out husk of some outdated clunker in a junkyard. Like a civilized particular person. 

That is the onerous lesson discovered by one Cybertruck proprietor—reportedly an grownup movie star named Dante Colle—who unloaded a spherical into the tailgate of his truck and filmed it for an unintentionally viral video. However as a substitute of deflecting the bullet, he is left with an enormous gap within the tailgate. And possibly elsewhere, relying on the place the bullet went. The unlucky affair has been making the rounds this week. 

It is unclear from this video what sort of weapon he shot the truck with. He is additionally not the primary one who has tried to shoot at their very own Cybertruck, a stunt that usually yields what would possibly charitably be referred to as combined outcomes. 

This retains taking place as a result of manner again in 2019 when the Cybertruck was first unveiled, Tesla CEO Elon Musk claimed it could be at the least considerably bulletproof—at the least, to 9mm rounds fired into the doorways. Prototypes have been seen peppered with bullets from a Tommy Gun, which can look cool however is hardly as much as par with extra fashionable weapons. And final 12 months, Tesla launched movies forward of the Cybertruck’s precise debut exhibiting it standing as much as 9mm handgun and submachine gun rounds as effectively. Since then it has been usually accepted—however once more, not one thing you wish to uncover in actual life—that the Cybertruck’s doorways are at the least considerably able to standing as much as small-arms fireplace. 

Different YouTubers and influencers have sought to check its limits since then. One video host hit the truck with a .50 caliber sniper rifle spherical, which, understandably, ripped proper by means of the doorways.

The tailgate appears to be one other matter, and if this host hit it with a extra highly effective handgun, it did not have an opportunity. And as Motor Pattern famous final 12 months, chrome steel is usually not used for ballistic functions nor licensed as such. 

So whereas that is nonetheless a intelligent advertising and marketing gimmick, keep in mind: you needn’t pump your automobile stuffed with result in “discover out” for your self. Can we please cease taking pictures the Cybertrucks now, everybody? 

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