As accidents captured on Tesla’s built-in dashcam go, the one embedded beneath is without doubt one of the most horrifying that we’ve seen thus far, but it surely’s price mentioning that the driving force of the automotive walked away from the entire thing unhurt.

The video, shared by Twitter consumer @Anoop_Khatra on his feed a few days in the past, was captured by his Tesla’s forward-facing digital camera whereas driving on the freeway and, nicely, it appears to be like like one thing out of a Closing Vacation spot movie.

A Kia Soul overtook the Tesla on the quick lane after which got here near a pickup truck that instantly misplaced its front-left wheel, which went beneath the Kia and made it fly into the air like an involuntary motorized acrobat.

With the airbags deployed and lots of particles falling on the highway, the hatchback landed again on its wheels, earlier than being hit within the again by the rogue wheel that began all of it.

As for the poster’s automotive, which recorded the accident, it was driving with Autopilot engaged and swerved to keep away from the runaway wheel, in response to the unique tweet, which is fairly spectacular in and of itself.

The American EV maker’s TeslaCam characteristic has come in useful a number of instances for each Tesla drivers and different highway customers, offering footage of accidents that may in any other case be onerous to clarify to investigators. 

We beforehand reported on plenty of accidents captured on Tesla’s built-in dashcam, just like the one the place a Mannequin 3 was rammed by a pickup truck that ran a cease signal. In one other occasion, a Tesla proprietor found a “serial keyer” who ran round scratching different folks’s automobiles for enjoyable (he even did it barefoot, for some motive).

All Tesla fashions made after March 2018 have the Dashcam characteristic as customary, which makes use of the automotive’s video cameras to seize footage on the go and permits the driving force to avoid wasting the captured movies on a USB stick. For the reason that software program replace 2020.12.5, the movies will also be previewed on the automotive’s primary display screen.

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