Looks like the warning sounds pretty much exactly when the car directly in front moves out of the way, and the sensors see the much slower moving car in front of the SUV. So no, not magic, just the thing doing what it's supposed to. Which is great, and needs to be implemented in every car in some form, as nearly all humans are shit at driving most of the time.

The only way I could see it working as described is if the Tesla really has that good of object-detection onboard, was already tracking all objects, and was just that accurate in determining the speed of the impacted SUV and the rate of decreasing distance between it and the car that hit it.
Even if that were the case, I suspect the sensors on these cars get exponentially fidgety at longer distances and with more extreme angles (like measuring changing distance between two 'overlapping' objects directly ahead), it's really unlikely it was predicting the collision.
All that to say: Yeah, I agree. You're most probably right.

I call shenanigans!


That was obviously a minivan, not an SUV.

According to the news, the car was still running, and the man was saying that the car was going to blow earlier(according to the 911 call).

So I'm guessing they thought the car could have explosives in it because of the call, and the way it was parked.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/terence-crutcher-police-shooting-tulsa-oklahoma/story?id=42217812

Would be interesting to hear what was wrong with the car. Because it's possible that the car simply overheated and that's why he said "it's going to blow". And the 911 caller just took it out of context.

Also we'll never know if he did or didn't attempt to reach into the SUV (which had it's windows down) because the helicopter was on the wrong side during the crucial moment.

Yes, Porsche makes an SUV. Has for years. The Porsche Cayenne.

Granted, it's based off the Volkswagen Toureg, but why quibble?

Structural failure isn't the only risk. The point of modern safety features is to reduce the impact of the crash on the occupants. If you crash an army tank into a large tree at high speed, the tank itself is likely to be fine but the occupants probably won't. In your case, whether your car is better or worse than the average modern car in a crash is probably "it depends".

How does your car compare to the Discovery in http://videosift.com/video/Crash-tests-SUV-vs-Minivan-Which-one-does-better ?

I loved the reveal when the Tesla SUV was drag racing the supercar!
(won't say more because a spoiler will make it less funny)

I'm always appalled by people saying they want an SUV for safety. You mean, because you'll use the other family as a crumple zone in a crash?

Damn, I thought Porsche was stupid to try entering the SUV market, and I was wrong, but I have to say, this foray into double decker buses seems ill-advised.

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I feel like I've been watching the same fucking trailer for years now. It was mildly interesting but god damn they better have some material for this film because I certainly dont care to see it after watching the same fucking SUV-freeway scene for the 12th time in a row.

SUVs are not designed to be used as a tool like an Unimog. SUVs are designed to be an attractive luxury mobile for urban consumers, not forest workers.

I'll see if it's still on the memory card, but last night my drivecam caught this sort of thing happening in front of me. An undercover police SUV had to jump the curb halfway down a block because 3 cars came to a stop in both lanes, and refused to move. He couldn't go oncoming as there was traffic and a fairly high divider.

I was driving behind a SUV the other day with those "my family" stickers on the back window. There was one person, then taking up the entire rest of the width of the window were cats!