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This is nothing like the current usage of cars. This is more like if everyone suddenly started fueling their cars in their kitchens. My NYC apartment had a 3
by BoorishBears 4y ago
This is nothing like the current usage of cars.
This is more like if everyone suddenly started fueling their cars in their kitchens.
My NYC apartment had a 3 story garage underneath it, but with modern engineering standards you could probably burn a car to ash and not get much more than a few whiffs of smoke in the lobby
These scooters and bikes are bursting into flames in people's apartments, and unlike cars, no one is engineering around their storage and charging. Often times these things burst in flames in the main living area, completely blocking off escape.
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If you actually look at the landscape for these devices, it's clear that this isn't fear mongering. There are boatloads of poorly designed bikes arriving in the city that are liable to go up in flames because they were designed with the bare minimum in safety features.
Your car went through millions of dollars of testing to be allowed on streets, that's why Pinto-like situations are not a dime a dozen occurrence. These bikes go through getting a fake UL sticker slapped on and not much more.
- ericbarrett 4y agoRight, car fires are not a good comparison because you don't park your car in your hallway, or leaned up against your bed, or hanging inverted a foot from the ceiling.
- yakak 4y agoSome people spend a lot of time locking themselves directly into these little inferno chambers. The only fire deaths I've directly seen were in cars. Naturally they are more visible than houses, but also so common that they don't make the news.
- BoorishBears 4y agoA car fire in NYC is news.
- yakak 4y agoTaking 1% of US statistics for NYC, there should be around 1100 car fires, with 4 deaths. I'm not sure those deaths would be clearly identified as a car fire as opposed to a generic fatal accident. A fire in a tunnel, basement parking lot or engulfing multiple cars, OTOH.
- StrictDabbler 4y agoCar fires are mostly caused by old cars overheating under heavy use. This gives the owner a chance to pull over and let the car burn. Bike fires are mostly caused by overheating while charging at night. This gives the owner the chance to die in their sleep.