Tesla earns its first-ever safety award from IIHS for Model 3

Re:Tesla earns its first-ever safety award from IIHS for Mod... by lucb1e on Thursday September 19, 2019 @12:14PM (#21017637)

So my phone may not yet have 5G, but my car can definitely pull 5G on its roof.

Sure how many Gs one typically pulls during a car crash. 5 doesn't strike me as a lot, but of course this is specifically about force applied to the roof. I guess you have to not just roll but actually fall on top of it somehow. At any rate, some actual data would be great instead of being amazed at this marketing statement.

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Re:Tesla earns its first-ever safety award from IIHS for Mod... by thenewwazoo on Thursday September 19, 2019 @01:19PM (#21018373)

Weight, a force in lbs, is not the same as g-force (m/s^2), which is an acceleration. You can't directly compare the two without knowing the time over which the acceleration occurs (and even then you only get an average force over time).

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Re:Tesla earns its first-ever safety award from IIHS for Mod... by ummonk on Thursday September 19, 2019 @04:24PM (#21020359)

The comment you’re replying to correctly used F=ma to impute the amount of sustained acceleration the roof could support.

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