Hello, I never realized the attention that incident received. That was my S that met with the black bear. It happened at roughly 5:30 am. Yes, I was using AP(1), 75 mph, both hands on the wheel and eyes focused ahead (kinda unusual for me). Luckily, already finished my cappuccino, so didn't have my travel mug up to my mouth. It was basically still dark, and on a slight left-hand curve so headlight glare from oncoming traffic a factor, and I was traveling in the left lane, having passed some truck traffic. Let me tell you, that bear must have been in a dead (sorry) run, because I didn't even register the dark object that just appeared when my car 'exploded' (all airbags deployed). I THINK I remember hearing the emergency braking (or something) alarm going off. After the airbag 'explosion' (kind of a huge pop), everything was dark, and I was still traveling at significant speed, totally blind. Thanks to the rumble strips on the side of the interstate, I could tell when I was off the highway, and just missed hitting concrete barriers on the side of the road. I was told that a bears hide is extremely thick, so they remain completely intact after an impact like this. Deer and whatnot often 'break' apart, sort of dissipating the energy. Again, simply amazed at the attention that incident received, just because of being a Tesla..
