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Meanwhile, about 300 non-Teslas burned in the UK yesterday, and about 300 will burn today, and tomorrow, and....
by mikeash 8y ago
Meanwhile, about 300 non-Teslas burned in the UK yesterday, and about 300 will burn today, and tomorrow, and....
- api 8y agoDevil we know...
- mikeash 8y agoPlus, things that are newsworthy are rare pretty much by definition.
- htgb 8y agoIs the figure 300 rhetorical or literal?
- laumars 8y agoNot disputing this happens to other cars but 300 a day - in the UK alone no less - seems plausibly high. Got a source to back up that figure?
- thomasfedb 8y agoIt's closer to 40 a day, at least in 2016/17. Still, it's not a rare event, which I think was the point being made. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/636436/fire-statistics-data-tables-fire0302.xlsx https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
- oldcynic 8y agoFrom your Excel link: Of which 50% are deliberate, and there is no breakdown of how many of the rest are random mechanical failure as opposed to having been involved in a collision with an associated fire.
- thomasfedb 8y agoI used the figures from accidental only - roughly 12k p.a. is around 35-40/day. Rough maths.
- csomar 8y ago40 a day for the UK is still a rare event. Don’t forget that there are lots of old cars there and negligent owners. But these news will make Tesla stick to higher standarda. So I don’t mind them.
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- mikeash 8y agoSource: https://www.fireservice.co.uk/safety/vehicle-fires/ https://www.fireservice.co.uk/safety/vehicle-fires/ I realize many of these are not really the same thing (there’s a lot of arson) but the basic point stands.
- nopriorarrests 8y agoSorry, you meant 300 non-teslas will burn spontaneously, not as result of a crash or other emergency? Is that true? Seems to be incredibly high number.
- mikeash 8y agoNo, that’s total fires, including arson and collisions and whatever else.
- pentae 8y agoAnd how many non Tesla cars are on the road vs Teslas?
- mikeash 8y agoFrom a quick search, Teslas make up about 1/1,000 of the cars in the UK (30,000 out of 30 million, very roughly). If Teslas burned at the same rate as the average we’d expect to see one Tesla fire every 3 days or so. (Of course there are lots of reasons that wouldn’t be true, like a huge amount of fires coming as the aftermath of thefts, and Teslas are harder to steal than average.)