edatoakrun
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No, it didn't melt.GRA said:The driver died at Stanford med center. First two photos (the rest are just Tesla stock fluff) here show the aftermath, including a front shot of the interior of the car (the rest is melted)...
The entire front end of the X disintegrated on impact, and the fire flared up later, as shown in the video at the link below:
https://www.torquenews.com/1/video-emerges-highway-101-tesla-model-x-crashTesla Model X after crash fire on highway 101
New video emerged from the scene of Friday's fiery Tesla Model X crash. The witnesses first helped to remove the driver from his Model X then shot this video, shared by NBC.
NBC's Ian Cull shared this new video of Friday's Highway 101 Tesla Crash, which happened in Mountain View, CA. It's fiery. You can see the the flare-ups starting the 14th second.
The witness, who sent NBC this video, says he shot the video right after he and his friend helped pulled the driver from the burning car. The driver later died at the hospital from his injuries...
Unfortunately, saving the driver from the battery fire did not save him from the fatal impact.
Sooner or later, you'll see a video of a Tesla crash followed by a battery pack fire where the driver and/or passenger(s) could not be extracted in time, and that's when the question of why only TSLA needs to use flammable battery packs may have to be answered...
Designing and maintaining roads to make them idiot-proof will never be 100% effective.sparky said:...I'm more convinced, based on other TMC posts, that the gore-point barrier hardware was not in place and that is what made this crash so deadly. Based on crash test videos of the sort of barrier at this location, I find it incredible that the Model X would have sustained such damage if a working barrier was present...
Primary responsibility will always reside with the pilot, or autopilot, to avoid driving into a fixed barrier.