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You have a point with the old and disrepair but fatal accidents is a bad classifier because what proof do you have that fatal accidents of other cars are fatal
by cdash 13y ago
You have a point with the old and disrepair but fatal accidents is a bad classifier because what proof do you have that fatal accidents of other cars are fatal accidents of a model S and by fatal I am assuming you mean fatal not due the fire.
As for running over debris, again it is not important because who cares if gasoline cars have different causes for their fires vs the causes of the model S. What matters is the percentage that actually do catch on fire with a large enough population.
After that, the next question that should be asked is, what is the difference between the danger of these fires. Are gasoline fires more or less dangerous.
- blinkingled 13y agoAre there stats around how many traditional cars exploded because of road debris hitting the gasoline tank? That's the key point here - everything can explode but what is the relative likelihood of a traditional car exploding because of road debris (as seems to be the case with the Tesla)? May be the gasoline tanks on cars are better shielded than the batteries on Tesla are.
- Dylan16807 13y agoCars don't explode.
- Natsu 13y agoNot sure if I need to recalibrate my sarcasm detector, but their gas tanks sure seem to: https://www.google.com/search?q=car+fire&tbm=isch https://www.google.com/search?q=car+fire&tbm=isch
- TylerE 13y agoStudy the difference between explosion and combustion.
- Natsu 13y agoProper explosions aren't that hard to find: http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/83524899/ http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/83524899/
- JshWright 13y agoIt's _extremely_ rare for a gas tank to explode. The only way that could happen is if it pressurizes to the point that the tank itself explodes from the pressure. There are pressure relief valves on the tank that prevent that from happening in the vast majority of cases. They burn, sure. They almost never explode.