<story><title>Tesla Model S achieves best safety rating of any car ever tested</title><url>http://www.teslamotors.com/about/press/releases/tesla-model-s-achieves-best-safety-rating-any-car-ever-tested</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RomP</author><text>This is simply unkind to the competition (and to the poles alike): &amp;quot;Tesla achieved this outcome by nesting multiple deep aluminum extrusions in the side rail of the car that absorb the impact energy (a similar approach was used by the Apollo Lunar Lander) and transfer load to the rest of the vehicle. This causes the pole to be either sheared off or to stop the car before the pole hits an occupant.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s winning and there&amp;#x27;s crushing the opponents.  One shouldn&amp;#x27;t gloat in the latter case, but this case deserves an exception.&lt;p&gt;Congratulations Elon and the team on tremendously nice engineering!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>axylone</author><text>Here&amp;#x27;s the video of the Tesla pole test: &lt;a href=&quot;http://youtu.be/_Al3IUHt9Wc?t=32s&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;_Al3IUHt9Wc?t=32s&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Honda Accord for comparison: &lt;a href=&quot;http://youtu.be/ycntFFUfGkU?t=30s&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;ycntFFUfGkU?t=30s&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Tesla Model S achieves best safety rating of any car ever tested</title><url>http://www.teslamotors.com/about/press/releases/tesla-model-s-achieves-best-safety-rating-any-car-ever-tested</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RomP</author><text>This is simply unkind to the competition (and to the poles alike): &amp;quot;Tesla achieved this outcome by nesting multiple deep aluminum extrusions in the side rail of the car that absorb the impact energy (a similar approach was used by the Apollo Lunar Lander) and transfer load to the rest of the vehicle. This causes the pole to be either sheared off or to stop the car before the pole hits an occupant.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s winning and there&amp;#x27;s crushing the opponents.  One shouldn&amp;#x27;t gloat in the latter case, but this case deserves an exception.&lt;p&gt;Congratulations Elon and the team on tremendously nice engineering!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Florin_Andrei</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;There&amp;#x27;s winning and there&amp;#x27;s crushing the opponents.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Crushing the opponents while your car remains uncrushed in the test (or the least crushed).&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s what you get when you ask the rocket scientist to make you a car.</text></comment>