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I wonder if auto manufacturers are starting fires as a sort of false flag operation against the good name of Tesla. It absolutely makes no sense that a fender
by jamra 13y ago
I wonder if auto manufacturers are starting fires as a sort of false flag operation against the good name of Tesla. It absolutely makes no sense that a fender bender would engulf the car in flames.
The driver safely pulled over to the side of the road and yet the car is in the middle of an intersection with the hood engulfed in flames. Check for accelerant.
- josefresco 13y agoIf you believe this, you might also believe the republicans are DDOSing the new gov health care website.
- shocks 13y agoNow… wait a minute… :P
- agf 13y agohttp://arstechnica.com/security/2013/11/new-denial-of-service-attack-aimed-directly-at-healthcare-gov/ http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/11/new-denial-of-servic...
- mkramlich 13y agoThey just DoS'ed the entire Federal government and put the full faith and credit of the government in doubt by risking default. It's not exactly a stretch of imagination that the same kinds of people or organizations might also have the motivation, means and willingness to try it against one particular website: the website associated with the very same law, the ACA, which was their ostensible reason for DoS-ing the US government itself. And note for those who can't make distinctions. There's a difference between whether parties were attempting to DoS the website, versus whether it was successful. Also it's entirely possible and reasonable that a DoS attack could result in being a partial contributor, though obviously not the sole cause of its woes. Distinctions. Shades of gray. Life. It's subtle that way.
- EpicEng 13y agoThe conspiracy theorist's typical argument; a lot of "well it makes sense, right?!" With absolutely no facts to back up the story.
- mherdeg 13y agoFYI in these models accelerant is the long skinny pedal on the right.
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- 001sky 13y agoCheck for accelerant. Ah, Lithium...
- ollysb 13y agoThe battery doesn't appear to actually be on fire. Makes you wonder what exactly it is that is burning in the picture.
- 001sky 13y agoAfter an October accident, a burning Tesla Model S was captured on video by a passerby. That was definitely the battery. It was triggered by debris on the highway striking the undercarriage and penetrating the 6mm armour plate surrounding the battery. They had to flip the car on its side (while it was burning), drill holes into the car to access the battery packs, and only then could put it out.
- mkramlich 13y agoexactly. considering the batteries are down on the bottom of the vehicle. The front hood area has an open trunk beneath. Air, by default as shipped. So what's inside that particular car's trunk?
- ollysb 13y agoI wasn't actually suggesting anything conspiratorial, just curious about what was on fire i.e. bits of metal don't catch fire that easily but obviously there's something under a car hood that does.
- EpicEng 13y ago>It absolutely makes no sense that a fender bender would engulf the car in flames. How can you possibly make such a claim? Are you intimately familiar with the design of the Model S? Have you performed some level of engineering analysis on these three cars post crash? If you really believe that a conspiracy is more likely than a design flaw then I don't know what to say to you.
- dram 13y agoCorruption on this level only existed 50+ years ago. Nowadays our politicians, popes and corporations would never do what they'd did in the 20th century.
- Aqueous 13y agoThat picture is not from the incident in the article. It's from an earlier incident in October.
- kgermino 13y ago>The driver safely pulled over to the side of the road and yet the car is in the middle of an intersection with the hood engulfed in flames. Check for accelerant. Per the caption that's a picture of a difference car...
- jamra 13y agoThanks. I didn't catch it.