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EV fires are more difficult to extinguish, aren't they? And EVs are often parked inside personal homes, so there's a higher likelihood that the fire could sprea
by kevingadd 4y ago
EV fires are more difficult to extinguish, aren't they? And EVs are often parked inside personal homes, so there's a higher likelihood that the fire could spread to a house and kill sleeping parents and children instead of only causing property damage. It at least makes sense that people find EV fires scarier than ordinary fires.
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- denimnerd42 4y agoour house has a carriage house in the backyard for the garage. i don't really like it setup like that but I guess it could be useful if this issue doesn't resolve.
- kevingadd 4y agoYeah, people also park in the driveway in many cases, which similarly protects you from a fire spreading to your house. At least where I grew up most people used their garages for storage or as a workshop, etc. Maybe climates like Florida's encourage garage use though since weather is going to age your car's paint more quickly? Not sure.
- ajross 4y agoNo sleeping parents or children have been killed by an EV fire in a garage. Bad logic like that (painting a picture instead of citing data) is precisely why people flip out about sub-noise signals like this (four cars burned in the course of a huge regional hurricane that destroyed whole tracts of suburban homes).
- kevingadd 4y agoSo you don't have a refutation to things like "EV fires are harder to extinguish" and you're just attacking a claim I didn't make ("sleeping parents or children were killed by an EV fire")? In the first place, I explicitly said that this is why people are scared, not that it actually makes Teslas unusually dangerous. Situations like this are all about shock value.
- ajross 4y agoI don't have to refute everything you say. You are right about a narrow notion of firefighting technique. You are wrong about parents and children burning to death. I thought that was important to point out. I'm very happy you agree that parents and children are not burning to death.