This is a fair point, and, to be honest, I don't have any idea of whether a standard car may catch fire in a similar circumstance. Had you been clear from the

This is a fair point, and, to be honest, I don't have any idea of whether a standard car may catch fire in a similar circumstance. Had you been clear from the get go, you might not have been downvoted like you are now. That being said, even if standard cars wouldn't catch fire, it is not necessarily aggravating for Tesla. The technology is different, and the kind of risk being run differs. This doesn't mean that Tesla cars are inherently safer or more dangerous (we'll need more data to determine this).