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The batteries are located under the car, and their base plate is more armored than your usual car undercarriage.

edit: floor, floor -> base plate, undercarriage. Thanks grinich for improving my vocabulary.

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And you telling me that reminds me that the misdirection works.

I don't understand your point. What is misleading?

Misdirection is distracting from the issue at hand by pointing to something else. It's a magician's trick. If you can't see the driver mentioning that he felt the vehicle saved his life by not letting the tow hitch penetrate the cabin, and the very deliberate placement of that observation written in a blog post published by Tesla in response to the vehicle catching fire after a common collision scenario, then I don't know what else to say.

We crossed ways. See my reply in the other thread.

If you need a throw away account, maybe that's a sign you just shouldn't say anything?

Right. I shouldn't disagree with the status quo. That's a sign of a healthy community.

I made the throwaway to make a point to a friend of mine regarding HN voting in Tesla threads. It's working, right down to the prediction that I'd be called a troll within 30 minutes.

I'd argue HN is no longer a healthy community. At least, not as healthy as it used to be. Silly stunts like throwaway accounts and being overly concerned with reputation are one reason why.

For what it's worth I have my doubts about the article as well. If the driver didn't have enough time to avoid the object but the truck in front of him did, then it's probably because he was tailgating.

Regardless, please stand behind your words with a real account. It's the right thing to do. It will also help maintain the integrity of the community here. Which sounds like something you're concerned about.

At highway speeds, all you need is a second of hesitation to erase a four car-length buffer. It probably takes over a half second to identify the object and determine it's too large to safely drive over.

I would be surprised if a truck had so little ground clearance that it would get caught up on a trailer hitch. The lowest part of a truck should generally be the rear differential, which gives a worst-case-scenario ground clearance of just under half the tire size. If the hitch wasn't centered in the middle of the truck, the ground clearance would be almost exactly half the size of the tires. Depending on the truck this could reasonably be a ground clearance of between 18" to 24", more than enough to clear a hitch without needing to swerve. Compare that to what, 5" clearance in the Tesla?

Swerving in a truck would also generally be much more dangerous than just hitting something.

>>It's working, right down to the prediction that I'd be called a troll within 30 minutes

Making the same argument multiple times in a thread turns this into a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy.

People will probably keep downvoting you until you explain your comment a little more.

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