We couldn’t leave you without a Friday post about the famous techno blogger Marques Brownlee (MKBHD). He shared on Twitter a photo of the hood of his Tesla Model S electric car, which, judging by the video from the car camera, an unknown person sat on.

Marquez’s post puzzled Twitter users, who in replies and retweets began to wonder how the metal in a Tesla car bends so easily. However, in fact, this is a normal situation for the Tesla Model S, because in order to facilitate the construction of the electric car, the manufacturer uses aluminum from bauxite for its body. Bauxite is a sedimentary rock consisting mainly of aluminum oxides and hydroxides, as well as iron oxide and various impurities (clay particles).

Of course, the design of the Tesla Model S is additionally reinforced with titanium and steel, but the aluminum panels of the body, including the hood, can deform under the weight of a person. This should be taken into account by those who want to rest on its hood. It is safer to do this on the more popular and affordable Tesla Model 3, because its body panels are made of steel.

Markes Brownlee himself rightly urges not to sit on other people’s cars at all:

“Extremely obvious PSA: Do not sit on people’s cars,” he wrote in the caption of the published pictures.