[EVDL] EVLN: Musk Explains A Tesla Crash

2015-11-13 Thread brucedp5 via EV


http://fortune.com/2015/11/07/elon-musk-tesla-crashes/
Elon Musk Explains What Happens When A Tesla Crashes
NOVEMBER 7, 2015  Jen Wieczner

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A Tesla Model S car equipped with autopilot in Palo Alto, California, on,
Oct. 14, 2015.


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“You want a deep pool and one without rocks in it.”

As the surprise speaker at the Baron Investment Conference in New York
Friday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk discussed the claims that his company’s electric
cars have been saving people’s lives lately.

A few weeks ago, Dreamworks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg had an accident
while driving his Tesla  TSLA 0.25%  Model S, but credited the car for the
fact that he walked away with nothing more than a broken arm, and
specifically thanked Musk. Then last week, an Uber driver posted a video
showing how his Tesla, using its new autopilot mode, automatically stopped
just in time to avoid a gnarly head-on crash. Ron Baron, the head of Baron
Capital who founded the conference, mentioned both incidents to Musk, who
was already well aware of them, and asked the CEO why he didn’t play up
Tesla’s safety benefits more in the company’s marketing.

“In fact in designing the Model S and the Model X, safety was our absolute
paramount goal,” Musk responded. “I felt like obviously my family will be in
the car, my friends’ families, and if I didn’t do everything possible to
maximize safety and something went wrong, I couldn’t live with myself.”

Because Tesla’s electric motors are so much smaller than conventional steel
engines, the cars also have a “crumple zone” two or three times larger than
traditional cars, which keeps drivers safer in the event of a head-on
collision (if autopilot failed to keep the car out of harm’s way), Musk
said. “When you have a high-speed frontal collision,” he added, “It’s just
like jumping into a pool from a high diving board—you want a deep pool and
one without rocks in it.”

Tesla cars are built for “maximum safety,” Musk said, though he doesn’t
measure safety the way the government does, with the standard 5-star safety
ratings. (Tesla’s Model S does have a full 5-star rating, though.) “This ‘5
stars’ is not like an actual statistic. Safety statistics are not measured
really in stars.”

Instead, Musk pays attention to a car’s injury rating, where “the Model S
still has the lowest probability of injury of any car ever tested,” he said.
“It is just objectively true, it is the safest car by far.”

In Katzenberg’s case, he was “T-boned by an SUV, so that’s a side impact
collision,” Musk said. The Model S also performs “much better than any other
car” in that scenario, he explained—getting into some of the more complex
physics principles—essentially because it’s designed to distribute the shock
throughout the car so that no one part bears the brunt of the hit. “So the
whole car moves sideways in a side impact collision,” the CEO said.
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Re: [EVDL] EVLN: Musk Explains A Tesla Crash

2015-11-13 Thread Bill Woodcock via EV
And then, there’s how they do it down under:

https://au.news.yahoo.com/a/30021424/minister-smashes-into-fake-kangaroo-in-hilarious-driverless-car-gaffe/

-Bill




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