toto_48313
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what happen if one is driving 50 mph and the other 100 mph? Is it like one car hitting a wall a 75 mph?
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Aren't airbags designed to deploy from the sensors in front, side being hit? If this car was sliced in half by the pole, the airbags would most likely not got off. As there was not a front impact to the car, only after it landed on the honda.
And I'm guessing. , as someone else stated, he didn't go through windshield, but "left" the car after hitting the pole and the resulting spinning motion of both sections.
DFibRL8R
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The photo posted of the screen still illuminated on page 2 of this thread doesn't seem to show front airbags deployed.
Stolen Model S crashes after police pursuit. 7/4/14 - Page 2
Also another photo posted earlier of the car on a flatbed clearly shows a human-sized hole in the drivers-side front windshield.
Stolen Model S crashes after police pursuit. 7/4/14 - Page 22
dhanson865
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Seems some earthlings tend to call it bringing someone back from death if their heart stopped and they stopped breathing then CPR revived them.
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NigelM
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The photo is post-fire. I'm pretty sure the airbags wouldn't have survived that.
No, that is a misunderstanding of how the "supplemental restraint system" (airbag) works. It is solely designed to protect a passenger who is already belted in.
JPP
Active Member
Some who have analyzed the video and photos report a regular CA license plate (not a dealer plate and not a blank), thus the vehicle was not a loaner/test drive Model S or new vehicle, and more likely a regular owner's car that was in for service. Service centers probably do not lock up keys like new car dealers. Anyone have facts and not speculation???
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Side impact...no front airbag deployment. And I did not think that airbags prevent you from being ejected, and it is always assumed that airbags work in conjunction with seat belts (not a replacement for them).
inottawa
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TSLA stock prices over the past 5 days
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This is my favorite headline about the price dip.
Tesla Shares Fall After Stolen Vehicle Crash in California - WSJ
It's behind a paywall so I can't access the entire article but the headline is perfectly accurate yet at the same time misleading about the causal relationship.
Vger
Active Member
Yes, but the acceleration forces are what cause injuries, and that depends on the energy dissipation of the crush zones in one or both cars. As we know, the Model S excels in this department. Other smaller cars, not so much.
As an absurdly extreme thought experiment, if two moving cars crash head on, but each has a (say) 500 foot long energy-dissipating nose, the forces felt by the drivers will be negligible.
An immovable brick wall is quite a different story.
Canuck
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Perhaps it is the human body that suddenly accelerates at the time of impact in a crash, which is the force Vger is referring to?
In a car crash, the human body is subjected to the same sudden deceleration as the car body. The crumple zones of the car mitigate that deceleration rate to some degree, but not always enough since the human body is relatively frail and incapable of accommodating sudden velocity changes without incurring significant injuries.
When genus homo was evolving on the African savannah it probably never exceeded speeds of about 15mph unless someone lept off a cliff, a behavior that typically resulted in that individuals genes not being passed on to subsequent generations.
Hence our fear of heights. ;-)
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