Underride crashes are particularly nasty. I guess it’s probably a quick way to go, though.
It’ll be decades before old designs are off the road though. And a good design only does so much.
It looks like it may have stayed in place and sliced through the car. In most other cars, it'd hit a dense engine before passengers; in a Tesla, that space is a trunk.
But you could be right that the Tesla’s crumple zone reinforcements didn't impact the bar.
They want to use public infrastructure but can't "contribute" back by at least making their trucks not insanely deadly to everyone else. Those videos show a 35mph crash is basically a recipe for decapitating front passengers of a sedan.
The distain truckers and the trucking industry have for the general public is disgusting. I've seen lots of trucks with giant spiked lugnuts - the only purpose of which is to shred the side of a passenger car if the trucker makes contact with said car. Literally weaponizing their vehicles.
https://www.curbsideclassic.com/uncategorized/vintage-review....
Incredible to think how her children on the back seat survived (including Mariska Hargitay).