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Old 04-23-2021, 04:52 PM   #10 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by aerohead View Post
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.
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.
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