[sandworm101]

Yes. Humans would. Which is why the car should be able to handle the impact. My honda civic has had worse without issue. The suspension should be beefy enough to absorb the impact with, at worst, a blown tire. That the car has broken suspension says to me that teslas are still too fragile, biuld more like performance cars than everyday drivers.

[tedggh]

With millions of Teslas on the road one would think if that was true we would have heard something by now. My absolute worst car quality wise ever was a Honda Accord. And I owned shitty cars including a Fiat. My most reliable car was a Honda Civic before I “upgraded” to a brand new Accord. I abuse my Tesla and so far no issues driving in one of the worst roads in the country. I must hit 100 potholes per month and blew a tire already. It’s not a fun car to drive like a GTI (which I own as well) but it’s definitely a solid car.

[sandworm101]

Cars with "bad" suspension tend to survive potholes. A car with slow-to-move suspension will see the wheel dip less down into the hole when traveling at speed. But that is the exact opposite behabior you want when dealing with debris, which requires the supension to move up rather than down. "Good" systems will have different responce curves for up than down. Quazi-luxury cars fake this by having slow suspension in both directions, to give the sense of "floating over potholes".

[Cut, google ai provided wrong numbers]

[Veserv]

Then you were not listening [1]. Tesla covered up 150,000 suspension defects, affecting approximately 5% of cars, with literal thousands of actual failures in operation. They blamed their defective suspensions on the customers for years and required over 30,000 of them to pay for repairs in defective components that, if not covered up, would have legally been Tesla’s responsibility to fix on their own dime.

A company actively covering up things that egregious can only be assumed to be doing things even worse regularly.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/tesla-mu...