On Monday, May 17, 2021 at 7:33:03 PM UTC-4, wrote:
On Mon, 17 May 2021 16:06:06 -0500, Markem618
wrote:
On Mon, 17 May 2021 10:38:10 -0500, Leon lcb11211@swbelldotnet
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.
Maybe he put it in ludicrous mode, then went plaid.
The torque available to accelerate in a Tesla is way different than a
old fashion auto.
Not sure if Musk was a fan of Space Balls, but seems somewhere I saw
that the high sport mode was title after the movies line.
I am going with no seat belts and the occupants ended in the back.
Could be but the momentum suggests otherwise. With no seatbelts, I'd
expect that the hither probability would be that they would be
ejected, perhaps through the windscreen or even the top as the car
disintegrated.
Facts matter: It wasn't the occupant*s* that ended in the back seat.
One occupant was in the front passenger seat i.e. not ejected.
Keep in mind that the vehicle went over a curb, hit a drainage culvert and
a raised man hole cover. With all that bouncing around, The driver could
have been bounced into the backseat before they hit the tree.
Over the center console between the front seats and then at some point
slid/bounced to the left rear seat where his body was found.
I'm not sure how else to explain the fact that the security camera captured
the owner getting into the drivers seat and then ~1/10 mile (550') later
he was in the backseat. Granted, I have not seen a timeline of events.
Maybe he got in the driver seat at the house, pulled out of range of
the camera, stopped, moved to the rear seat and then got the car up to
a "high speed" (as per the popo) before the vehicle ran off the road.
I guess that's possible.