A Tesla Model 3 successfully avoided a frontal collision using the standard safety features such as the ‘front radar’ & ‘Automatic Emergency Braking (AEB)’ — the incident was recorded live with the help of onboard dashcam (video below).

Tesla Model 3 owner apparently from Georgia states that he was never going to be able to avoid that crash without the vehicle’s assistance — as we can see in the video that the SUV in front collides within 5 seconds of the Model 3 lane change.

A human driver in such a situation might not be able to predict an accident from only looking at the front, Tesla’s radar technology can jump from under the front vehicle to detect a second vehicle in front (How Tesla radar works with AP 2.x).

The response time of the vehicle in applying full brakes is also amazing, Tesla stated around 2 years ago that:

As the system confidence level rises, the braking force will gradually increase to full strength when it is approximately 99.99% certain of a collision.

This is what we have seen in this situation, the Tesla Model 3 was fully confident that the vehicles in front are going to crash so the car decided to come to a full stop — let’s watch.