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Care to share your calculations? They're quite the reverse of my back-of-the-envelope, which rounds to an egregious degree, and doesn't take into account the s
by rattray 13y ago
Care to share your calculations? They're quite the reverse of my back-of-the-envelope, which rounds to an egregious degree, and doesn't take into account the subset on public highways or not:
150,000 fires / 250mm total cars in america: ~ .0006
3 fires / 20,000 Teslas (their expectation for this year: ~.00015 (4x fewer fires)
I'm not sure whether we should care that gas cars catch fire in parking lots rather than highways... it seems like a huge concern regardless.
- 001sky 13y agoYou need to adjust your data down to 26k hwy fires and correct for milage driven. For a comparison even to how tesla cites the data, see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6499111 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6499111 I'm not sure whether we should care that gas cars catch fire in parking lots rather than highways... These vehicles are typically not occupied. So from a driver and passenger safety perspective...you really should care.
- rattray 13y agoGotcha. Thanks!