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if you crash a regular car and it catches fire do you feel its unsafe? in this case whatever the driver hit must have been pretty big and went through the alumi
by zobzu 13y ago
if you crash a regular car and it catches fire do you feel its unsafe? in this case whatever the driver hit must have been pretty big and went through the aluminum (the bottom of the tesla is without any doubt much stronger than a regular car due to the battery compartment). It's likely to have caused a fuel leak and electric fire in any other car as well, except the car wouldn't tell you that and everything would have burnt (if you have never seen a car fire, firemen can't stop the fire from consuming the car once the fire reaches the fuel tank)
the point is that the car knew it was damaged and self diagnosed properly, and that electric circuits are all properly isolated and monitored. Pretty cool if you ask me.