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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. I’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.

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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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