Tesla dashcam footage revealed a Mannequin Y shrugging off a collision with a Nissan truck that despatched the pickup flying right into a freeway barrier. Taylor, who owned the four-week-old Mannequin Y, was driving alongside I-35 in Hickory Creek, Texas when a black Nissan frontier pickup truck collided together with his automobile.
Taylor’s Mannequin Y escaped the collision with some scratches, however in any other case stood agency in opposition to the Nissan pickup. The Mannequin Y driver appeared to be driving responsibly and was conscientious concerning the drivers beside him. Based on Wham Baam Teslacam, Taylor had modified lanes to “enable lead-footed drivers to move him within the quick lane.”
The Mannequin Y dashcam footage confirmed Taylor passing the Nissan truck. The pickup appeared to hurry up after the Mannequin Y handed and proceeded to vary lanes twice earlier than swerving into the Tesla automobile. Based mostly on the video, it appeared like the driving force of the Nissan pickup didn’t decelerate whereas altering lanes and misplaced management of his truck, ensuing within the collision.
Taylor’s Mannequin Y appeared unfazed by the Nissan truck. It barely deviated from it lane when the pickup truck collided with it. The identical couldn’t be stated of the Nissan Frontier. It appeared like the huge pickup bounced off the Mannequin Y and continued to swerve straight into the freeway barrier.
The Mannequin Y’s stable response to the collision appeared just like an incident involving a Mannequin X final yr. In 2019, a Mannequin X dismissed the impact from a Ford F-150. Throughout that collision, the Mannequin X stood agency similar to Taylor’s Mannequin Y did with the Nissan pickup truck.
The Mannequin Y has not obtained a security ranking from the Nationwide Freeway Visitors Security Administration (NHTSA) or European New Automobile Evaluation Programme (Euro NCAP) but. Nonetheless, the Model X received a 5-star safety rating from each the NHTSA and Euro NCAP in 2019. The identical is true with the Mannequin Y’s sibling, the Tesla Mannequin 3.
The Mannequin X’s low heart of gravity was talked about in each security reviews as a result of it resulted within the lowest rollover likelihood. Based mostly on the collision Taylor’s Tesla automobile skilled in opposition to the Nissan Frontier, the Mannequin Y could also be simply as resilient as its SUV predecessor.
“Mannequin X performs so a lot better in a crash than gas-powered SUVs due to its all-electric structure and powertrain design. The inflexible, fortified battery pack that powers Mannequin X is mounted beneath the ground of the automobile creating a middle of gravity so low that Mannequin X has the bottom rollover likelihood of any SUV on the highway. No different SUV has ever come near assembly and exceeding this rollover requirement,” reported a Tesla weblog after the Mannequin X obtained a 5-star safety rating from the NHTSA.
Watch Taylor’s new Mannequin Y shrug off a collision with a Nissan pickup beneath.