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The inside pictures are quite stunning from my perspective. The cabin is almost fully in tact with no compression inside and what looks like a totally functional main control screen. The only real crash indicators are the airbags and the cracked windshield. Iā€™m no expert, but it seems like it did an excellent job at keeping the occupant alive by virtue of simply keeping the entire cabin healthy.

https://m.imgur.com/a/33RUwEN




The pictures are indeed stunning but with no other _verifiable_ information (like the exact circumstances such as speed) these should be taken with a grain of salt especially on Reddit, which is considered basically Tesla's astroturf.


This is an important idea in performance vehicle design - in a crash, the 'capsule' around the occupant must not be compromised. You see this pretty vividly in bad F1 crashes. Granted, those vehicles are so weight optimized that they'll lose a wheel if they tap a kerb, but in particularly bad wrecks you'll see that the entire car, aside from the capsule has pretty much disintegrated.

example: Fendando Alonso's 2016 crash. Looking at photos, the car had been reduced to a capsule with a bit of engine and wheel sticking off of it. Alonso climbed out of the cockpit himself.


We don't seem to know how hard the roll-over was but we can see at least three of the doors still open. Part of that will be because they are pillar-less so less likely to jam at the top but it's still pretty impressive.




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