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Tesla ‘spontaneously’ caught fire on highway in Sacramento County: officials

19 points by MilnerRoute 4y ago

JoeAltmaier 4y ago
...and my brother's Mustang spontaneously caught fire back in 82. So what.
- filoleg 4y ago
  The difference is that in 82 there was no easy and accessible way to overblow the frequency of those events and make it go viral online.
  - ncr100 4y ago
    Putting out a Mustang fire is a lot easier.
    - JoeAltmaier 4y ago
      Actually it completely burned. Lonely gravel road; too half an hour for fire dept to get there. Total loss.
      - ncr100 4y ago
        :< sad.
- postalrat 4y ago
  More teslas in peoples garages than 82 mustangs.
  - JoeAltmaier 4y ago
    Not back in '82?
- papito 4y ago
  1982 was still early days of the push for car safety. It was better than before, but the standards are way higher now. 50 years ago, 40% of all fire department calls were related to car fires. Now, a car catching fire, especially spontaneously is almost unheard of.
  - IcePic 4y ago
    1982 is also some 80 years into production of gas driven cars with people riding in them. It can't be that people before 1981 were fine with a large possibility of getting roasted in their cars and only later did someone figure it would be good to not die in a fire because a law said so? Also, there has been statistics on how often cars of different types burst into flames and EVs are very low in that regard. The fires are nastier, but far more common. (random hit from googling such statistics) https://www.motorbiscuit.com/electric-vehicles-catch-fire-considerably-less-gas-cars/ https://www.motorbiscuit.com/electric-vehicles-catch-fire-co...
    - papito 4y ago
      People were exactly fine with it. The regulations only became a thing after "Unsafe at Any Speed", 1965. Cars had no seat belts and people drove drunk ALL the time. Coincidentally, I randomly just listened to a Stuff You Should Know episode just a few hours ago: "Back When Ford Pintos Were Flaming Deathtraps": https://podcasts.apple.com/is/podcast/sysk-live-back-when-ford-pintos-were-flaming-deathtraps/id278981407?i=1000404389072 https://podcasts.apple.com/is/podcast/sysk-live-back-when-fo...
  - hulitu 4y ago
    > Now, a car catching fire, especially spontaneously is almost unheard of. It depends. In DE you hear it almost daily. There are design rules which are only taken seriously since some (5) years. And implementing them is expensive and time consuming which leads to "tailoring".
- iancmceachern 4y ago
  I think Fords of this era were actually designed to catch fire
  - hulitu 4y ago
    Never attribute to malice... They were just optimised for profit. Testing is expensive, so if there is not much damage to property or human life, it can be skipped.
    - iancmceachern 4y ago
      Thanks for mansplaning my joke
jakupovic 4y ago
[flagged]
- aintgonnatakeit 4y ago
  Reality?
Ecstatify 4y ago
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nigrioid 4y ago
It's pretty scary that these battery fires don't require oxygen to burn. That's mostly why they are so hard to deal with; you can't just deprive the fire of oxygen to extinguish it.

19 points by MilnerRoute 4y ago

JoeAltmaier 4y ago

...and my brother's Mustang spontaneously caught fire back in 82. So what.

filoleg 4y ago
The difference is that in 82 there was no easy and accessible way to overblow the frequency of those events and make it go viral online.
- ncr100 4y ago
  Putting out a Mustang fire is a lot easier.
  - JoeAltmaier 4y ago
    Actually it completely burned. Lonely gravel road; too half an hour for fire dept to get there. Total loss.
    - ncr100 4y ago
      :< sad.
postalrat 4y ago
More teslas in peoples garages than 82 mustangs.
- JoeAltmaier 4y ago
  Not back in '82?
papito 4y ago
1982 was still early days of the push for car safety. It was better than before, but the standards are way higher now. 50 years ago, 40% of all fire department calls were related to car fires. Now, a car catching fire, especially spontaneously is almost unheard of.
- IcePic 4y ago
  1982 is also some 80 years into production of gas driven cars with people riding in them. It can't be that people before 1981 were fine with a large possibility of getting roasted in their cars and only later did someone figure it would be good to not die in a fire because a law said so? Also, there has been statistics on how often cars of different types burst into flames and EVs are very low in that regard. The fires are nastier, but far more common. (random hit from googling such statistics) https://www.motorbiscuit.com/electric-vehicles-catch-fire-considerably-less-gas-cars/ https://www.motorbiscuit.com/electric-vehicles-catch-fire-co...
  - papito 4y ago
    People were exactly fine with it. The regulations only became a thing after "Unsafe at Any Speed", 1965. Cars had no seat belts and people drove drunk ALL the time. Coincidentally, I randomly just listened to a Stuff You Should Know episode just a few hours ago: "Back When Ford Pintos Were Flaming Deathtraps": https://podcasts.apple.com/is/podcast/sysk-live-back-when-ford-pintos-were-flaming-deathtraps/id278981407?i=1000404389072 https://podcasts.apple.com/is/podcast/sysk-live-back-when-fo...
- hulitu 4y ago
  > Now, a car catching fire, especially spontaneously is almost unheard of. It depends. In DE you hear it almost daily. There are design rules which are only taken seriously since some (5) years. And implementing them is expensive and time consuming which leads to "tailoring".
iancmceachern 4y ago
I think Fords of this era were actually designed to catch fire
- hulitu 4y ago
  Never attribute to malice... They were just optimised for profit. Testing is expensive, so if there is not much damage to property or human life, it can be skipped.
  - iancmceachern 4y ago
    Thanks for mansplaning my joke

jakupovic 4y ago

[flagged]

aintgonnatakeit 4y ago
Reality?

Ecstatify 4y ago

[Alternative Link]https://web.archive.org/web/20230129223948/https://www.kron4.com/news/california/tesla-spontaneously-caught-fire-on-highway-in-sacramento-county-officials/ https://web.archive.org/web/20230129223948/https://www.kron4...

nigrioid 4y ago

It's pretty scary that these battery fires don't require oxygen to burn. That's mostly why they are so hard to deal with; you can't just deprive the fire of oxygen to extinguish it.