Tesla battery firewalls worked great, no kaboom!
Tesla Model S fire vs 35 firefighters – watch impressive operation after a high-speed crash
Tesla Model S fire vs 35 firefighters – watch impressive operation after a high-speed crash
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AMPd
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You do realize that gasoline powered vehicles involved in a collision that causes a fire don't automatically go ... kaboom
Of course not but many of them would eventually. those firefighters would not be standing right next to the car for so long for that reason.
K-MTG
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ccdisce
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I guess autopilot nee driver assist has trouble coping with:
1. Inattentive driver for whatever reason.
2. Inadequate road change indicators a. A blue arrow pointing to the right to indicate lane closure.
b. An orange colored sign on the right indicating lane closure but turned edge on to the oncoming traffic so that it cannot be seen.
Placing a 5 ton grey colored concrete barrier in the lane at an angle to stop driver killing the workers on the the other side of the barrier... this actually did its job in this case to deflect the car to the right. Thankfully the car did not airborne
Maybe the barriers could be festooned with Blue Flashing Lights. Here in the US at road re-construction sites a cop car with its blue lights going is placed ahead of the construction sites.
The car's radar should be able to pick up the angled barrier....... well maybe not at that angle and initiate the Emergency Braking Procedure if it is turned on. An improvement to the barrier could be a thin radar reflective coating which would function like chaf to the incoming rocket.
People are exposed to so many movies and TV shows showing cars exploding on impact that they often assume that is reality. As you note, it most certainly is not something that happens most of the time.
At 1:05 in the video, the young female who was driving the car may be visible standing next to the center divider.. She appears to be the non-emergency responder closest to the accident scene, and I don't know why she would be allowed that close unless she was the driver.
It appears that the Tesla crashed into a temporary concrete barrier that closed off that side of the highway just before the tunnel.
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Apparently it was an autopilot accident. The carriageway was blocked for work in the tunnel and the traffic was being swapped to the opposite side. The car carried straight on into the barrier.
Apparently it was an autopilot accident. The carriageway was blocked for work in the tunnel and the traffic was being swapped to the opposite side. The car carried straight on into the barrier.
AMPd
Well-Known Member
That's inaccurate, if there's a gasoline leak and it's on fire then there's no pressure building in the tank.
The plastic hoses will have melted releasing any would be pressure from the tank, not to mention the tank itself has probably melted after a few minutes
The fact is it's extremely difficult for a gasoline car to explode from a collision or a fire
Actually it's very hard to blow a car up, mythbusters proved that fact when they shot at the gas tank, drove the car off a cliff, and I believe they even set fire to it and all it did was burn
