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Re:Roof blows off new Tesla Model Y by Sophistifunk on Wednesday October 07, 2020 @07:07PM (#24713869)
> is incredibly heavy and so sticks to the ground

That's... that's not how cars work.

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Re:Roof blows off new Tesla Model Y by michaeljohansen on Wednesday October 07, 2020 @07:26PM (#24714015)
(I get that you're trying to be funny. That's OK.)

Nevertheless: He means that electric cars have a "low center of gravity" which matters immensely in collision scenarios.

See this short video of a Model X in a capsizing test: https://twitter.com/ValaAfshar/status/1310623334367989761?s=...

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Re:Roof blows off new Tesla Model Y by Sophistifunk on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @09:12PM (#24772175)
"Low CoG" and "Heavy" are not at all the same thing, and frankly I've known plenty of people in meatspace who genuinely thought "moar heavy === better grip", so I may be over-sensitive to this particular falsehood.
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