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Have you ever wondered what would happen if a giant object would hit the Tesla Model X’s massive panoramic windshield?

We now have the answer.

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The Model X’s “Big Sky” panoramic windshield is a signature feature of Tesla’s electric SUV due to it stretching all the way over the front seats and to the Falcon Wing doors.

The design offers an unparalleled obstruction-free view, but it also comes with other challenges, like requiring Tesla to develop a relatively complex sun-visor system.

It also hasn’t been clear how strong the windshield is since it has to extend much further than a regular windshield before it reaches the frame, but it has now been put to a serious test.

In Switzerland today, a truck driving on the highway lost 2 of its wheels and one of them bounced right on a Tesla Model X’s windshield.

Here are some images from the aftermath via 20min.ch:

The cantonal police of Graubünden confirmed that nobody was injured during the accident.

Electrek’s Take

That’s a hell of a freak accident that most likely gave the Model X driver a good scare.

It’s quite incredible that they didn’t get injured since wheel definitely broke through the windshield, but it looks like it

Article source: https://electrek.co/2018/04/11/tesla-model-x-truck-wheel-windshield-no-injury/

I recently spotted for the first time a Land Rover Series III “Lightweight” in Nuremberg, Germany, and now I’m stuck in a deep rabbit hole learning about this incredible machine. So I’m bringing you down with me.

These amazing off-roaders were called “lightweights” because the whole idea was for Land Rover to modify its existing 88-inch wheelbase Series IIA into something significantly lighter that could be transported by the military by helicopter while also significantly smaller so that it could fit into an airplane or on a pallet.

The helicopter meant to lift the Land Rover, according to a number of websites devoted to Land Rover history including the Military Lightweight Club, was the Westland Wessex, which had a payload rating of only 2,500 pounds. And the airplane meant to fit two Land Rover Lightweights side-by-side was the Argosy.

According to the aforementioned website devoted to these lightweights, Land Rover took the Series IIA and stripped it down to its bare essentials:

Therefore items such as doors, windscreen, some body panels, spare wheel, hood and the rear seats were not needed. The vehicle finally ended up as a chassis equipped with very a simple angular body with a narrow bulkhead (fire wall) and axles to fit in the Argosy. The body’s aesthetic being determined by the need to cover

Article source: https://jalopnik.com/the-land-rover-lightweight-was-a-military-machine-desig-1825395309

Soon after the explosion, Ms. Riordan was partially sucked out, Mr. Kraidelman said.

“The top half of her torso was out the window,” he said. “There was a lot of blood because she was hit by some of the shrapnel coming off the engine after it exploded.”

Mr. Kraidelman said passengers and flight attendants struggled “to drag her back into the aircraft.” When they did, she was unconscious and seriously injured, and flight attendants and passengers tried to revive her. Upon seeing the scene, one flight attendant began to cry, Mr. Tranchin said.

“They were doing CPR on her and using the defibrillator while we were landing,” Mr. Kraidelman said. “They were working on her while everyone else had their oxygen mask on.”

Mr. Tranchin said that one of the passengers helping had at one point placed his lower back up against the opening in the plane, in an apparent effort to help with the compression. The man did this for the next 20 minutes, Mr. Tranchin said, adding that the man later told him that the pressure at his back had been extreme.

In the meantime, passengers wept and screamed for roughly 10 or 15 minutes, oxygen masks strapped to their faces, Mr. Kraidelman said.

Mr. Tranchin said he spent those precious minutes texting goodbyes to people important in his life.

“It’s a wild experience,” he said. “It’s not a couple minutes of freaking out and frantically saying goodbye;

Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/17/us/southwest-airlines-explosion.html