With that much of the front end on moving hinges it's going to crumple in an interesting way.
Just more of an engineering thing then anything else.
Since as of now it's not going to be able to be sold in the EU / other parts of the world there are a lot of safety things it will be exempt from, so we might not see a lot of the more unique testing.
Would like every car to go though the Volvo tests. Less about safety, mostly because they are cool.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3Agd_YGDu0
I'm 90% certain that some of those tests were invented by engineers as drunk bar bets about what they could get management to pay for in terms of testing.
"Lets drop cars from 100' up from, we will tell them it's for rescue crews to figure out how to deal with getting people out of bad accidents, and it's cooler then smashing them into walls at high speed"
Back to this.
With still no price and full specs the wait list may drop off a lot once they really start selling. There is also the issue of time, how many people will they loose because for whatever reason they just can't wait any longer. That has become a large issue over the last few years with 'wait listed cars' I wound up getting my deposit back on a couple of car reservations because it got to the point although I did not need a car NOW my warranty was expiring and I did not want to risk driving something (even something as reliable as a Honda) without one.
On today's vehicles, which are for the most part computers with wheels, even minor things can cost a fortune to fix. At times it's not even the parts but just a labor to get to the parts.
One of our customers has or had, a reservation for the CT, but he needed / wanted a new pickup now, might have been able to stretch it till the end of the year or early next year but not past that. So he bought a F150. Until it dies or goes out of warranty he is not getting the Tesla. Nothing good or bad, just the way it is.
-Dave
