---
title: "Watch this Tesla Predict and Avoid a Nasty Highway Wreck"
description: "Dashcam footage shows this EV avoiding a multiple-car collision."
date: "2016-12-27"
modified: "2016-12-27"
authors:
  - name: "Aaron Brown"
    job_title: "Staff Editor"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/aaron-brown"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/6691/watch-this-tesla-predict-and-avoid-a-nasty-highway-wreck"
categories:
  - "Car Tech"
  - "Electric Vehicles"
  - "News"
  - "News by Brand"
  - "Self-Driving Tech"
  - "Tesla News"
tags:
  - "Autopilot"
  - "Dashcam"
  - "Electric Vehicle"
  - "Tesla"
---

# Watch this Tesla Predict and Avoid a Nasty Highway Wreck

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A dashcam video uploaded to Twitter Tuesday shows a [Tesla Model S acknowledging a potential hazard](<https://twitter.com/HansNoordsij/status/813806622023761920>) on the road in front of it, and then the car completely avoiding the nasty two-car rollover wreck that the electric vehicle first warned its driver of.

The clip, uploaded to Twitter by Hans Noordsij, shows a Model S being driven on the [A2 near Eindhoven](<https://twitter.com/HansNoordsij/status/813840795082063874>) when the car's Forward Collision Warning system sounded an alarm alerting the driver of a potential hazard ahead. Right *after* the noise went off, a handful of cars crashed into each other in a spectacular wreck. Because the Tesla picked up on the crash before it happened, the car was able to slow itself without issue.

[As *Electrek* noted](<https://electrek.co/2016/12/27/tesla-autopilot-radar-technology-predict-accident-dashcam/>), this was likely a perfect example of Tesla's recently updated software that allows the car to basically see through the car directly in its path and monitor traffic multiple car-lengths in its path. This tech helps avoid accidents that would likely be almost unavoidable if a human driver was left to his or her own senses.

According to Noordsij, everyone in the cars that actually got smashed up in the accident “[turned out to be OK.](<https://twitter.com/HansNoordsij/status/813815907122380800>)"

https://twitter.com/_/status/813806622023761920

## Author
Aaron was previously a contributing writer with Jalopnik and has also written for Business Insider covering cars. When he's not in the office writing the news, you'll probably find him thrashing a beater car around a RallyCross.

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