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Very, very good idea.

Personally I think the ground clearance is still a bit on the low side.

It looks like it lost a bolt or something in the first impact image... oops.

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I noticed that too but can't tell whether it's a plastic "rivet". If you look at the plastic fairings on your car, you'll see that many are held to the body with a snap-fit plastic connector. These are also used as blind fittings on many interior panels (such as door panels). They break and detach often enough that my local hardware store carries the more common ones.

Definitely a plastic rivet. It's too pointy to be a bolt, and you can see the thin 'head' separated from the flange which releases it.

Yep, I can confirm, there are hundreds of those throughout the car to connect pieces that are either cosmetic or not tied to the safety or performance of the car. For instance, the plastic shell inside the frunk is connected to the car with them.

It's probably a plastic rivet holding the plastic aeroshield Elon mentions as the first line of impact absorption.

He's making cars which are implausibly high-tech, ridiculously well armoured, have inexplicably low ground clearance, and look rad.

Elon Musk is Batman, and i claim my five pounds.

Lost bolt versus a lost $40k battery pack? I'll take the bolt option, please :)

I assumed that was part of the trailer hitch that was being run over.

You can never be too low! #flush

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