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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the only governmental really allowed to drive cars into walls on a regular basis, has beaten the crap out of a few Tesla Model 3s and decided that hey, this thing is pretty good at smashing into things. As a result, they've awarded the car the highest possible score, five stars. Not bad for a car built in tents!
So far, every car Tesla has built has earned a five-star safety rating, an impressive achievement. The automaker has a strong history of building cars that ace these crash tests with flying colors and bits of bodywork.
Source: https://jalopnik.com/tesla-model-3-gets-five-star-crash-safety-rating-from-n-1829196052
Also: Tesla Model 3 crushes NHTSA's crash testing with a 5-star rating at c|net.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by datapharmer on Monday September 24 2018, @11:25AM
Were the ones tested produced with or without the 300 "extra" spot welds that Tesla deemed unnecessary [qz.com] when they were speeding up the assembly line? If they were ones with the extra weld spots I'd be curious if the NHTSA felt the same about the "newly improved" version. Not trying to knock Tesla here - I've been in a model S and they are quite impressive, but I'd hate for people to but based on a false sense of security - especially after seeing the story on Soylent where Subaru scrapped vehicles for accidentally missing spot welds [soylentnews.org] just the other day.