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Cars almost never get fire when they crash. It seems more likely that you crash a car that caught fire.
by ohwp 13y ago
Cars almost never get fire when they crash. It seems more likely that you crash a car that caught fire.
- tomjen3 13y agoFuel tanks don't catch fire if you shoot at them with tracer bullets (see the old episode of mythbusters), why should they explode when the car hit a tree? It was a nice car, well designed, and surely the engineers at BMW had considered various crash situations, including a front colliosion with a blunt object.
- numbsafari 13y agoBecause they do: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x22gip_video_auto http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x22gip_video_auto
- numbsafari 13y agoAlso: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaGNk4se99I http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaGNk4se99I
- hysterix 13y agoPeople mentioning mythbusters as if it is actually a relevant data point is really annoying. They are an entertainment show, nothing more. Because they shot a tracer bullet at a gas tank (really that's the "evidence"?) means exactly nothing in the real world.
- tptacek 13y agoBy which you mean "cars catch fire all the time when they crash". http://www.chandlerlawgroup.com/library/national-vehicle-fire-statistics.cfm http://www.chandlerlawgroup.com/library/national-vehicle-fir... (stats from NFPA).