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Originally Posted by aerohead
I get it.
One thing which is not obvious, and approaches a parlor trick:
Rain doesn't 'do' what is demonstrated in the video.
* In a 'real rain, there is a 'geographic' distribution to raindrops.
* In a real rain, there is a 'temporal' distribution to raindrops.
* Rain doesn't fall as a single point source, and it doesn't fall as a steady stream, continuously, at a single location.
* If the glazing has any crown to it, accumulated water will be dispersed tangentially away from the center, where the 'overshoot' would occur.
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The demonstration was to highlight the effect, not to reproduce a typical downpour. Plenty of Tesla fans have complained of water infiltrating their trunk in a way that isn't so prevalent in other vehicles.