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Originally Posted by ZAMIRZ This company/car is so polarizing. God forbid anybody try to innovate or do something different in this country anymore. Pretty accurate article on what happened and the subsequent sensationalist responses:
Surprise, Cars Sometimes Catch Fire When Crashed! Why Everyone Needs To Take A Breath On Tesla
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Originally Posted by island911
Crashed! ???
Running over road debris now equals "Crashed!"
or are you saying that this IS the subsequent sensationalist response?
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Originally Posted by ZAMIRZ
Yes, hitting a metal object is crashing into a metal object.
Or are you saying you don't know what the meaning of crashed is?
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Whoa - Why the emotional flip response? All I did is
question their use of the word 'crash' for this situation of what the driver called running over road debris.
Repackaging the event as "crashed" strikes me as Spin. Wait wait; it
Crashes into me as Spin.
To clarify, when I hear/read the word "
Crash" I envision hitting something hard enough that the car has a marked decel event (or series of events) - NOT something where I keep driving, unphased, until I notice that the car is running funny, and decide to take the next exit.
But I do see your point - I can image that a trash-romance novelist might write "she gazed her poutful eyes outward as the rain-drops
crashed against her bedroom window..." (but I could be wrong)
It's just that when it comes to
car crashes, I envision demolition derbies - where, oddly, fires are rare.