You're safe in a car because the lightning will travel around the surface of the vehicle and then go to ground.This occurs because the vehicle acts like a Farad

You're safe in a car because the lightning will travel around the surface of the vehicle and then go to ground.This occurs because the vehicle acts like a Faraday cage. http://science.howstuffworks.com/nature/natural-disasters/lightning8.htm http://science.howstuffworks.com/nature/natural-disasters/li...