Tesla Model S driver walks away from crash with a truck

[Az_Rael]

Tesla Model S driver walks away from crash with a truck at ‘tremendous speed’

Wow - looking at those photos, I am reconsidering my plan to keep a full size spare wheel and tire in my frunk. Glad the driver was OK. Too bad he was speeding in a construction zone.

 

[Eclectic]

Tesla Model S driver walks away from crash with a truck at ‘tremendous speed’

Wow - looking at those photos, I am reconsidering my plan to keep a full size spare wheel and tire in my frunk. Glad the driver was OK. Too bad he was speeding in a construction zone.

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"...his injuries were described as “serious,” but not critical."

That's not quite "OK".

 

[Barry]

Wow is right!

 

[sorka]

It's hard to imagine that the driver would have survived in any other car. That is just NUTS to look at!

 

[BluestarE3]

"...his injuries were described as “serious,” but not critical."

That's not quite "OK".

Relatively speaking, "serious" is "OK" when compared to "critical" or "dead" in a lesser car. Especially so if the driver was able to dislodge himself from the wreck and walk away to safety, as reported in the article.

 

[gaswalla]

Where's the guy blaming autopilot?

 

[Max*]

Well look at that, all of Keef's complaining to the NHTSA finally paid off. The wheel didn't detach!

 

[jimmyjohn]

From Top Secret (Val Kilmer):

General Streck, German High Command: [talking on the phone] What is the condition of Sergeant Kruger?

[pause]

General Streck, German High Command: Very well, let me know if there is any change in his condition.

[Hangs up]

General Streck, German High Command: He's dead.

 

[SageBrush]

'Serious' and 'critical' injury definitions are not set in stone but the former typically implies > 24 hours admission to the hospital and the latter life threatening.

 

[AmpedRealtor]

This says nothing about Model S safety, as there is no way to prove or disprove how another vehicle in the same situation would have performed.

 

[calisnow]

This says nothing about Model S safety, as there is no way to prove or disprove how another vehicle in the same situation would have performed.

Correction - this says nothing about model s safety vs other cars.

 

[HyperMiler]

These trucks display a larger-than-life pass on the left/right arrow and flash blinking lights, but may be stationary on the shoulder or the affected lane, i.e., very visible to the human but not necessarily to the artificially intelligent eye.

 

[artsci]

"Walks" away might be a bit of a stretch, probably more like carried away on a stretcher.

 

[4SUPER9]

"Walks" away might be a bit of a stretch, probably more like carried away on a stretcher.

According to the article: "the driver reportedly was able to get himself out of the car and walk to safety". Though you are probably correct in that there was a stretcher involved after that. Walked, stretcher, critical, serious, whatever. I wouldn't want any of that for myself or anyone else.

 

[lklundin]

"Walks" away might be a bit of a stretch, probably more like carried away on a stretcher.

Maybe, but Elektrek.co's translation of the cited German source is basically correct. In my direct translation the important sentence from the German source is:

The 56-year-old driver from the area of Karlsruhe injured thereby himself seriously, but could leave his fully destroyed vehicle by himself and bring himself to safety.

I am speculating that "bring" and "to safety" means that the driver staggered the few steps into the center median.

I find it notable that the driver's door was not jammed tight by the collision (apart from the fact that the accident was not fatal).

 

[lklundin]

Where's the guy blaming autopilot?

That joke is no longer the same:

Renewed calls for Tesla to scrap Autopilot after number of crashes

 

[BluestarE3]

That joke is no longer the same:

Renewed calls for Tesla to scrap Autopilot after number of crashes

That has been an on-going drumbeat, but was there any indication Autopilot was in use for this particular accident?

 

[lklundin]

That has been an on-going drumbeat, but was there any indication Autopilot was in use for this particular accident?

That is the point, the quoted article refers to this accident in connection with the call to Tesla regarding the AP without any information on how the accident actually happened.

So in the end, what was surely meant as a another AP-joke is now less funny.

Except of course for those laboring to make Tesla Motors fail.