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You're incorrect. Other car safety systems do in fact do that as well, where they'll analyze object momentum towards the vehicle.

Some high end cars even adjust their suspension and body angle to minimize damage https://youtu.be/1ZSinXkJBMU



your example still allows the car to strike the door directly. It is also based upon radar data rather than a 3d simulation, so it could also result in a rollover with certain geometries. I suspect that's why pre-sense 360 is not available as an option on any of the non-etron audis at my local dealership, and why even in the e-tron that includes it, it is not even advertised as a side-impact safety feature anywhere, while it clearly explains its performance in front and rear collision.


If you keep watching the video, you'll see you're again incorrect.

The first section of the video is with the car in a fixed stationary position to demonstrate how it can activate safety even in an immobile state.

At the end of the video, they show how it breaks because it detects a lateral incoming object around a blind corner, preventing door collision all together.

This isn't unique to Audi either, other brands like Volvo have oncoming traffic detection around corners and will break to avoid it.

Again, Tesla actually lacks some sensors that these other brands which causes Tesla's to actually have a greater blind spot. E.g most of these cars can "see around corners" whereas a Tesla cannot. This is in part because Tesla has removed radar (and the ultrasonic sensors are too short range on any vehicle). Radar was what allowed it to do bounce detection around obstacles that obscured pure vision based approaches.




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