Cybertruck hits deer @ 75mph; damaged but not totaled and FSD keeps on driving

[Crissa]

Doors do jam sometimes in accidents, and in any circumstance I’d find it concerning. Wonder if there’s an engineering opportunity there to reduce this possibility in vehicles in general.

No. The doors staying in place help shield the occupants. You don't want them not jamming together and coming off or open in an accident. Or worse, the opening they're protecting collapsing. ...And crushing the occupants.

In this case, the front corner panel probably abutted or slid over - as it's supposed to do - locking in a defensive posture as the crumple zone was engaged.

-Crissa

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[mbrockus]

Next up: CT vs ELK.

I didn't catch from the video if CT was on FSD at the time of the collision. I've disengaged FSD in the past to avoid both deer and elk on the road, as I wasn't sure FSD would do the right thing... I don't believe it has the notion of animals, and basically treats them just like stationary obstacles unlike the pedestrians.

My good friend from HS lives down in SunRiver and his wife was on the way home from Bend at night when she noticed some cars on the right side of the road with flashers on and she moved over to the left lane, well... much to her surprise someone had hit an elk and it was laying on the left - center part of the road, her performance Model Y went over that beast. She had to have gone airborne... anyhow after her Dukes of Hazard event.. she pulled over.. didn't see much and drove home. My buddy went out to investigate and then started pulling big chunks of elk from under the car as it was making a funny noise. the bad part is it hit a coolant line and they need to replace the battery... but they now have one hell of a story.

 

[Crissa]

My good friend from HS lives down in SunRiver and his wife was on the way home from Bend at night when she noticed some cars on the right side of the road with flashers on and she moved over to the left lane, well... much to her surprise someone had hit an elk and it was laying on the left - center part of the road, her performance Model Y went over that beast. She had to have gone airborne... anyhow after her Dukes of Hazard event.. she pulled over.. didn't see much and drove home. My buddy went out to investigate and then started pulling big chunks of elk from under the car as it was making a funny noise. the bad part is it hit a coolant line and they need to replace the battery... but they now have one hell of a story.

Wow, reminds us that the 'slow down' part of 'move over or slow down' is actually more important. They had so many new signs about that going through Oregon lately.

And Sunriver was beautiful. I remember my parents would have us time share there in summer because they could get good rates in the ski lodge style condos. I beat Legend of Zelda there one summer ^-^;

-Crissa

 

[smg]

No. The doors staying in place help shield the occupants. You don't want them not jamming together and coming off or open in an accident. Or worse, the opening they're protecting collapsing. ...And crushing the occupants.

In this case, the front corner panel probably abutted or slid over - as it's supposed to do - locking in a defensive posture as the crumple zone was engaged.

-Crissa

All do respect but I refuse to believe the alternative to the doors jamming and trapping occupants is the doors just flying off.

 

[Crissa]

All do respect but I refuse to believe the alternative to the doors jamming and trapping occupants is the doors just flying off.

That is how it works, though. Materials must compress to absorb energy, panels must slide over each other in specific directions and layers.

You definitely want the front quarter panel to slide over the door so if it takes more damage than that it peels off without becoming a can opener for the door and excess energy is deflected away from the safety capsule.

-Crissa

 

[rudedawg78]

I want to see the dashcam video of this.

 

[DJAlan2000]

A bee was cut in half by my frunk panel yesterday. was very concerning...

If it was a 'killer bee' then you did a service! hehe...

Otherwise, you are a murderer and eco terrorist!! (JK)

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