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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: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 24 2018, @04:52AM (3 children)
No one with a brain would buy a Tesla.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Sulla on Monday September 24 2018, @05:14AM (2 children)
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(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 24 2018, @03:38PM (1 child)
You sound like an incel to me. This isn't merely lack of education about the dangers posed to women by dorks on couches. You could be rolling coal but instead you hate women because you can't get laid.
(Score: 2, Funny) by DannyB on Monday September 24 2018, @06:16PM
Are you confusing Tesla with Apple?
If you eat an entire cake without cutting it, you technically only had one piece.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 24 2018, @05:41AM
Unless it has the backing of some of the sleaziest government agencies, Tesla (the car company) is going to fail. Safety ratings are next to useless in real-life anyway. It is also possible the ratings were rigged as is the case with companies providing weapons delivery capability (see below).
They have no history and no learning from it. Currently Tesla is running on investor money (just like google when it was created by TLAs). When it has to compete with traditional autos, then reality will take over but I suspect this company has the backing of the deep state. It was said that Muskie will allow Space X rockets to launch weapons, and this is just the start.
One good piece of advice: do not waste money on it even if that money was swindled from honest, hard-working peoples of the world.
(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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 24 2018, @02:51PM (2 children)
well DUH! where did all that extra crumble zone come from?
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday September 24 2018, @06:18PM (1 child)
What if you fill that extra crumple zone with luggage? Even then, it probably isn't as massive or dense as an engine block.
If you eat an entire cake without cutting it, you technically only had one piece.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by bob_super on Monday September 24 2018, @07:21PM
True, but on the other hand, if you have a lot of inertia in that engine block in front of you, as soon as it hits the wall and stops, you also have a smaller portion of the inertia left for the frame to deal with.
The batteries between the tires gives more crumple zone, but the frame has to deform to absorb all the kinetic energy. Which is a problem all the mid-mounted and the rare rear-engined ICEs also have in frontal crash tests.
Obviously, it seems like Tesla took that into account. But it's not as simple as "no engine, more crumple, better".
I'd really like to see comparative sims of the efforts at play and the real-time kinetic energy dissipation.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 25 2018, @12:12AM
"So far, every car Tesla has built has earned a five-star safety rating"
Great, so what's the news?