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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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[–] TheOakTree@lemm.ee 51 points 1 day ago (2 children)

...they broke the window with a tree branch?

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 68 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

It's bullet proof, not pointed stick proof.

/s needed apparently

[–] real_squids@sopuli.xyz 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It's their marketing selling something non-existent, the patent doesn't mention anything about bullets.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

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

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The glass is not bullet proof.

The stainless steel doors are small caliber bullet proof.

[–] Sludgeyy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 3 points 15 hours ago

For the record a decimeter is about 4 inches. "a few decimeters of metal" is a lot of metal.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Sludgeyy@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

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.

[–] Vandals_handle@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Is it loganberry proof?

[–] real_squids@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, it's just laminated glass, with borosilicate external layer

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago

thats what PYREX(the capital P and p) glass is made off,