Summary

A Tesla Cybertruck crashed in Piedmont last November, killing three college students after hitting a cement wall and bursting into flames.

The California Highway Patrol (CHP) attributed the crash to intoxication and high speed but found that the victims likely died from the fire.

Testimony revealed the vehicle’s doors would not open after the crash, preventing rescue attempts. A survivor was pulled out after a bystander broke a window with a tree branch.

The CHP’s investigation into the crash remains ongoing.

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      2 days ago

      The glass is not bullet resistant. The doors barely qualify, if they don’t have to stand up to an actual firefight.

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        Resistant

        There is no guarantee to stop even a small caliber

        Small caliber at high velocity would go straight through

        You could say a thick metal wall is small caliber bullet proof because no matter what velocity, the small chunk of metal is never passing through a few decimeters of solid metal.

        Small caliber piercing round at high velocity, straight through the stainless steel door.

        Slap some plastic on that bad boy

        You’d really trust that as a bullet shield?

        Normal 9mm across the street. Probably going through

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            10 hours ago

            Yep small caliber proof for sure

            My favorite part of decimeters is 1 inch is 1/4 decimeters. 3 decimeters is foot.

            So if it’s like 8 inches. I can just say 2 decimeters

            From there you can say 20 centimeters or .2 meters

            If something is 12ft it’s 36 decimeters or 3.6 meters

            There’s no easy way to turn 8 inches into centimeters other than knowing that 1 inch is about 2.5 centimeters or just estimating in centimeters to begin with.

            You could say 8 inches is 2/3 of a foot. 3ft to a meter. So 1 ft is .30 meters. Then it’s 2/3 of a foot, so .30×2/3=.2.

            Decimeters are the missing link for Americans to convert

            Yards to meters is 1

            Feet to meters is 3

            Inches to decimeters is 4

            Things like a 36 inch doorway, 3 feet, would be 9 decimeters or .9 meters

            Common measurements of inches:

            12 - 4 Decimeters

            18 - 4.5 Decimeters

            24 - 8 Decimeters

            30 - 9.5 Decimeters

            What they would use otherwise would be

            .4 meters

            .45 meters

            .8 meters

            .95 meters

            Saying the standard doorway is 9 Decimeters is way better than saying .9 meters.

            If you rounded to 1 meter. You’re adding 3 1/3 inches. Which is a 10% increase.

            A decimeter tape measure would be nice.

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          2 days ago

          There are plenty of videos out there showing it stopping repeated 9mm bullets. But you’re right, the velocity will also come into play.

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            Yeah, I watched one from official Tesla youtube where the guy shot it with a bunch of stuff.

            It did stop the 9mm with the rounds they chose

            The buck shot pierced the door and cracked the window because it was rolled down.

            Buck shot is smaller caliber with higher velocity.

            I need to find a video of someone trying to get a 9mm bullet to go through it rather than basically a paid advertisement.

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              This one is recent and it does various calibers / velocities

              https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufoLITv26R4

              it did stop a subsonic and supersonic 9mm. The supersonic one was pretty close to going through though, I wouldn’t have been surprised if he did a dozen or so if one would have.

              The shots that ripped the metal instead of piercing through it were pretty wild.