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  • 6 years ago
This guy experienced a traumatic car accident. The wheel of a truck came off and hit his car from the front. Even though the impact was strong, the man was unhurt, and the deformation occurred only on the exteriors. He thanked the makers for building safe vehicles.
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00:00I was fortunate enough to experience Tesla safety in an accident I had where
00:05a wheel of a crossing truck came off and hit me at great speed.
00:09I was traveling at 80 km per hour and so did the oncoming truck. Just before we
00:14crossed one wheel of the truck came off and hit me at full speed.
00:19Things went so fast there is nothing you can do and just hope the car you're
00:23sitting in will protect you from what's about to happen. The impact energy of the
00:27wheel is similar of a wheel hitting a parked car at 160 km per hour.
00:38The wheel got slingshotted backwards ending lying approximately 50 meters
00:43away from the car on the railway. The impact was tremendous and still no
00:48deformation in the cabin whatsoever.
00:52All I felt was the ringing in my ears from the impact and from the explosion
00:56of the airbags. Other than that, nothing. I walked away without a scratch.
01:07I herewith would like to thank Elon Musk for building such incredibly safe cars.
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