On Monday, May 17, 2021 at 11:38:19 AM UTC-4, Leon wrote:
On 5/17/2021 8:50 AM, DerbyDad03 wrote:
On Sunday, May 16, 2021 at 4:53:32 PM UTC-4, Leon wrote:
On 5/16/2021 8:42 AM, DerbyDad03 wrote:
On Saturday, May 15, 2021 at 6:56:48 PM UTC-4, Scott Lurndal wrote:
DerbyDad03 writes:
On Saturday, May 15, 2021 at 3:30:11 PM UTC-4, Leon wrote:
Actually 40 years ago one of our car salesmen rolled a new Toronado 1=20
mile from the dealership. It burned after he got out, the steering=20
wheel was not a normal shape.
The deformation of a steering wheel caused by heat would not be the same
deformation as caused by impact.=20
And the Tesla Model S has at least two types of steering wheel;
the Yoke style may look deformed to someone expecting a standard
round steering wheel.
Once again you've proved that all you are doing is reading these posts
and slamming them without having done any actual research.
I'm pretty that sure that Teslas vice president of vehicle engineering,
Lars Moravy, would not be "expecting a standard round steering wheel."
He was the one that said the company found the steering wheel of
the vehicle to be deformed.
And more speculation, the crash was at 30 mph.
I posted this the last time you said that the crash was at 30 MPH:
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Not according to the po-po.
This is dated May 12, 2021:
https://www.insurancejournal.com/new.../12/613656.htm
"The report didnt say how fast the car was going, but Harris County Precinct Four
Constable Mark Herman said it was a high speed."
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I'm not sure what Mr. Herman means by "high speed", but I'm speculating that it
was more than 30 MPH.
Even you said "Seems to me a 30 mph crash should not have been so devastating."
One would think that if there was some one in the drivers seat that the
air bag would have gone off and prevented the driver from deforming the
steering wheel. And the vehicle was not to be badly damaged from the
crash so much as from the fire.
The crash site was 800 feet from his home.
800 or 550? Not that it matters that much, but this article says 550'.
https://www.insurancejournal.com/new.../12/613656.htm
I posted that link a few days ago. I'm not sure if you had a chance to read the article.
It states that a security camera recorded the owner getting into the driver's seat
shortly before the crash. That is why I am speculating that the doctor was driving
at the time of the crash and was knocked into the back seat on impact.
As I said in my earlier post, the following is why I don't think the doctor was letting the car
drive itself and was in fact knocked into the back seat during the crash. Remember, the
security camera captured him getting into the driver's seat and the popo said the crash
occurred at high speed. We also have Tesla's VP of engineering stating that the steering
wheel was deformed, and as K has verified via his personal experience, the steering wheel
can be deformed by the driver during a crash.
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"So, in about 1/10th of a mile, the driver got the car up to a high speed, engaged the cruise
control and then moved into the back seat. That sure is some fancy footwork.. ;-)
and...
"The NTSB report said the 2019 Model S went off the road on a curve, drove over a curb,
hit a drainage culvert, a raised manhole and a tree."
Now, it doesn't specifically say that the vehicle ever got airborne, but I lost a dear friend
when his truck went off a road and hit a drainage culvert. The resulting "bounce" resulted
in my friend being ejected through the open window. Perhaps the good doctor was bounced
into the back seat due to driving at a high speed over a curb, into a drainage culvert, over a
raised manhole and into a tree.
That's a lot of jostling."
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