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What a surprise twist. Reporter sees that this supports Tesla's safety claim... IMO this does not say anything about Tesla's safety, not good or bad.
It does to me. It says the driver was alive when ejected. According to one of the reports, the driver was wedged between the wall of the synagogue and the rear end of the vehicle. That means he was ejected right as the car split in half. To say that this incident says nothing of the car's safety implies that the driver benefited by being ejected from the vehicle. I disagree.
I don't remember reading this piece of data:
http://www.valuewalk.com/2014/07/tesla-model-s-crash-in-west-hollywood/
I am surprised that there have been no posts on the stolen Tesla crash that happened yesterday in California
At this point I don't think that you can rule out a mechanical failure of the seat belt secondary to the damage to the Tesla near the anchor points.For people arguing about the driver being ejected and how that disqualifies the Tesla from any safety claim, keep in mind that the car also had a passenger (at least according to this video). If the driver was not ejected (from not wearing his seatbelt), he probably wouldn't be in critical condition.
http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2014...-hollywood-building-following-police-pursuit/
You made your post in a thread of well over 200 posts about that crash.
Was your post intended as a joke?
agree.. Imagine driving for several miles while the car keeps making noise because you're not wearing a seatbelt.At this point I don't think that you can rule out a mechanical failure of the seat belt secondary to the damage to the Tesla near the anchor points.
No, it was a separate thread to start. Trust me, moderators have been very very busy today merging together all the *new* threads about this event. Every time I stop by, there's more to merge. Same for the other mods.
weird how there looks to be 2 light poles right next to each other. The street lamp all by itself seems pointless because the traffic light that is about 10 feet away also has a street light on it.Here's a Google street view of the area, you can see the first of the two poles is pretty beefy, holding both a traffic light and a street lamp:
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.092515,-118.344063,3a,75y,16h,90t/data=!3m3!1e1!3m1!2e0!6m1!1e1
I thought someone said the new traffic poles are meant to brake in a collision.
I have seen no reports of a video either (otherwise I expect it would have been posted everywhere already). No one knows for sure how the crash went down."Video"? I have seen no other reports stating there was video of the crash, or stating where the Tesla thief ended up after being thrown for the car.
I did a quick google search and it seems all new poles need to have a breakaway feature. Which I think are the poles that are bolted down. That one street lamp was not bolted down so I'm assuming it did not have a breakaway feature and it probably should have been removed. Here is a link about the breakaway features.Could be, but I'm not so sure of that. Is it better over all to have a pole stay upright, or come crashing down on anything nearby? Also, those poles with lamps and traffic lights on arms sticking out have to be able to take some pretty high wind loads. Obviously this particular event was beyond the design loads of both those poles.
weird how there looks to be 2 light poles right next to each other. The street lamp all by itself seems pointless because the traffic light that is about 10 feet away also has a street light on it.
Maybe the street lamp all by itself is old and they never removed it.