In reply to racerfink :
Yikes! I'm not sure what the title of the post means in relation to what happened though.
Seems someone blew a red light and hit the other. They weren't racing or competing in any way with each other.
The GTR driver was racing somebody.
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racerfink said:The GTR driver was racing somebody.
If he was, I'll bet the very detailed eye-witness account would have included it. He may have just been racing the light.
Bad hit. A two-ton GTR at speed packs a lot of kinetic energy. I'm glad there was nobody in the back seat of that SUV.
I was impressed by the overall structural integrity of the Tesla. For a 100mph hit, it's in good shape.
Oh, that's the wreck we were talking about in the hotlink thread.
Mndsm said:I was impressed by the overall structural integrity of the Tesla. For a 100mph hit, it's in good shape.
O Rly? Which piece?
In reply to 1988RedT2 :
The piece where the occupants sit?
Ian F said:In reply to 1988RedT2 :
The piece where the occupants sit?
Rear seat occupant's
The last row of seats are in front of the VW.
In reply to racerfink :
Sarcasm.
A 4,000lb car at 100mph is too much energy to expect a clean outcome. Remember the Enzo that broke in half?
High enough speeds means bad things happen regardless of structural integrity. Sounds like the driver of the Tesla walked away and the other occupants were injured but not too badly. Amazing, all things considered.
Indy-Guy said:In reply to racerfink :
Sarcasm.
To get a good idea of how fast the GTR was going and how much energy was involved-look at the left picture of the front 2/3 of the Tesla. Now look at the two people standing at the back corner of the front portion of the Tesla. If you look between them at that white car down the road, that's the GTR. It tore the back off of a Tesla, then took out a long row of bushes on a raised median, and still managed to travel that far down the road spinning and sliding.
Also-I am amused that the ICE car is the one steaming and puking while a battery powered spontaneously combusting self driving fireball is literally ripped in two and it is calmly sitting there flame free.
Peen?
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At least the glass didn't shatter this time.
I've seen a lot of people bagging on the Tesla for coming apart.
Horse hockey. Nothing is going to absorb that kind of kinetic energy and stay in one piece. Especially when it's hit from the side, not from the end where there is some space and mass for engineered crumple zones.
I'm frankly amazed it looks that good.
For the damage it did, the front of the GT-R isnt too bad either.
Indy-Guy said:Ian F said:In reply to 1988RedT2 :
The piece where the occupants sit?
Rear seat occupant's
The driver's side rear looks more or less intact. The seat back is still in place. The passenger side looks fairly crushed, but it's hard to tell how badly from these pictures.
Ripping the back of the car off absorbed a lot of the impact energy that could have been transferred to passengers. Just because a car is in pieces doesn't mean that's a bad thing.
I was surprised at how well things came out all things considered. 100mph vs 0mph incidents are always so ugly.
pinchvalve said:For the damage it did, the front of the GT-R isnt too bad either.
To get a sense of the energy involved look at the roof and the fact that the energy transferred all the way to the rear quarter panel. That's some serious impact.
I know someone that died in a 35 mph single car crash. Looks like ultimately, tragedy was averted.
Next we'll learn that the driver of the GTR was a service tech taking a customer car for a "test drive"
I think the Tesla was a salvage car...
Like 2 cars glued together.
Ian F said:Indy-Guy said:Ian F said:In reply to 1988RedT2 :
The piece where the occupants sit?
Rear seat occupant's
The driver's side rear looks more or less intact. The seat back is still in place. The passenger side looks fairly crushed, but it's hard to tell how badly from these pictures.
Ripping the back of the car off absorbed a lot of the impact energy that could have been transferred to passengers. Just because a car is in pieces doesn't mean that's a bad thing.
Except the last row of seats is still in the back section of the Tesla. It ripped through the passenger compartment right in front of the 3rd row of seats. I'd call that a bad thing.
Edit to add: At the 30 second mark you can see the 3rd row seats folded down. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=30&v=_qMnOdRFhDA&feature=emb_logo
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