As accidents captured on Tesla’s built-in dashcam go, the one embedded beneath is likely one of the most horrifying that we’ve seen thus far, however it’s price mentioning that the motive force of the automotive walked away from the entire thing unhurt.
The video, shared by Twitter consumer @Anoop_Khatra on his feed a few days in the past, was captured by his Tesla’s forward-facing digital camera whereas driving on the freeway and, properly, it appears like one thing out of a Remaining Vacation spot movie.
A Kia Soul overtook the Tesla on the quick lane after which got here near a pickup truck that abruptly misplaced its front-left wheel, which went beneath the Kia and made it fly into the air like an involuntary motorized acrobat.
With the airbags deployed and plenty of particles falling on the highway, the hatchback landed again on its wheels, earlier than being hit within the again by the rogue wheel that began all of it.
As for the poster’s automotive, which recorded the accident, it was driving with Autopilot engaged and swerved to keep away from the runaway wheel, based on the unique tweet, which is fairly spectacular in and of itself.
The American EV maker’s TeslaCam function has come in useful a number of instances for each Tesla drivers and different highway customers, offering footage of accidents that will in any other case be laborious to elucidate to investigators.
We beforehand reported on quite a few accidents captured on Tesla’s built-in dashcam, just like the one the place a Mannequin 3 was rammed by a pickup truck that ran a cease signal. In one other occasion, a Tesla proprietor found a “serial keyer” who ran round scratching different folks’s automobiles for enjoyable (he even did it barefoot, for some motive).
All Tesla fashions made after March 2018 have the Dashcam function as commonplace, which makes use of the automotive’s video cameras to seize footage on the go and permits the motive force to save lots of the captured movies on a USB stick. For the reason that software program replace 2020.12.5, the movies will also be previewed on the automotive’s primary display screen.
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