> The company admitted in a statement to the German website 24auto.de that it used pyrotechnics to ignite the fire. Despicable. Somewhat ironically, it's remen

> The company admitted in a statement to the German website 24auto.de that it used pyrotechnics to ignite the fire. Despicable. Somewhat ironically, it's remeniscant of the demonstrations that Edison staged to spur panic about the dangers about AC electricity, favoured by his competitors including (Nikola) Tesla. Although those didn't have to resort to outright faking the effects, so this is arguably worse. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_currents#Collusion_with_Edison https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_currents#Collusion_...