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NHTSA Gives the Model S Best Safety Rating of Any Car In History
cartechboy writes "Even crashing into a wall is good news nowadays for Tesla Motors. Independent testing by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has awarded the company a 5-star safety rating, not just overall, but in every subcategory. While its five-star score across the board has been attained by other vehicles (around one percent of all cars tested are capable of such a score) its ratings in individual categories are higher than any other vehicle, including larger SUVs and minivans. What's really interesting is that part of the safety rating may be because the car is electric."
Five star safety rating across the board. Excellent! Now if only it didn't come with a five star price tag
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
There's nothing disingenuous here: a car that cannot move most of the time is much safer than one that does!
I kid, I kid. BP, I expect my check by the end of the month.
Just find some old Pintos and have every bad guy drive those.
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Gasoline engines are well noted for their ability to work underwater.
When you roll the thing over, you want it to be rigid so that it doesn't bend to intersect with your empty skull.
Gasoline engines are well noted for their ability to work underwater.
Yes they do work great submerged. All you need is a snorkel or air supply butt a gasoline engine had no problem what so ever working underwater.
I am taking that as sarcasm. However it is tough to tell with these posts, you could just be wrong.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Not artificially high? How come North American cars don't have amber turn signals then?
They are amber, you just can't tell because nobody uses them. They just give you a gentle nudge to tell you they are changing lanes.
If you are not allowed to question your government then the government has answered your question.
What I'm afraid is that there will no longer be explosions when a car barely collides in movies [U+2e2e]
[Unless it is a documentary about 'accidents' like Michael Hastings'...]
Don't worry, movie producers will rig the cars with Tesla Coils and there will be an impressive array of electrical discharge arcs emanating from the car, incinerating everything in the vicinity.
If the color of turn signals is the main plank of your safety argument, you've failed.
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"And just how strong is the Model S roof, which is secured with aerospace-grade bolts? It broke a testing machine that was pushing down on the roof with the equivalent of the weight of four cars."
Four cars? Pshaw. Forty years ago my Volvo could bench press 6.
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