I don't see how the nuances of a battery fire vs. much more likely ICE fire would enter into any reasonable consideration.

Nobody is buying these with the intention of building an electric hyper-car to use at the track.

That itself is dangerous. You're basically discouraging someone from offering advice to the general public because you think the knowledge is generally known, but that's just not the case.

I have a general idea of what I'm doing but reading that comment changed my perspective of what is and isn't dangerous in a car and those dangers shift from ICE to electric.

Frankly, I'm glad he opened my mind to the ideas.

And if you don't discourage it all discourse gets drowned out into a bunch of "hurr durr don't forget your jack stands" type virtue signaling (in the technical sense, not the politically loaded sense) about safety and you get Reddit. You can't please everyone.

There's a reason that e.g. Shelby Cobras are so rare. Very easy to spin out a short wheelbase car with a V8.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AC_Cobra

Reminder: dont let your cool friends drive your race car. This is how Paul Walker died.

The next car this (and other) shops build (if they survive the law suit) will come with a stack of "release of liability" documents for the buyer to sign. I 1000% guarantee that.

Its stupid on their part that they sold the car to him without release from any potential liability if he crashes the car or injures himself and others, like in this case.

It boggles me that anyone would have any expectation that the seller of a high performance car would be liable for the driver crashing it. It’s not like they didn’t know it was a beast of a car. What happened to personal responsibility?

Even this simple purely informational use only website HN has a 10 pages list of "terms & conditions": https://www.ycombinator.com/legal/

Any performance car builder should have one too.

https://youtu.be/3sniigpXfAY?t=140

It's a right hand turn and "locking the handlebars all the way to the left" wasn't trying to correct the "dumping" of the bike.

Locking the handlebars all the way left would hopefully have ensured the bike went down, stayed down and not sat back up again thus causing the "tank slapper". When you ride a bike, especially a motorbike you counter intuitively "steer left" to turn right, and vice versa.

Former sports bike rider here...until I bit the big green banana.

Turn-in is actually noticeably improved by lower tire tread on tires (as long as your tires are still roadworthy and the road is dry).

If you take a look at one of the most popular "sticky" tires for autocross, it almost looks like the tread has completely worn away on a normal tire: https://www.tirerack.com/images/videos/video_images_758x426/...

More likely they tried to get into the throttle during the turn at the wrong place, or tried to brake during the turn when caught off-guard, both of which would upset the balance of the car and send you off the road.

Traction control (or intentional chassis/suspension design) might have saved them from oversteering (spinning out towards the road), but not been able to prevent them from going off the road

I was once at an "open track day", and this group of kids brought a Nissan GTR and a Skyline. They couldn't drive these cars, there was a Miata out there that they couldn't keep up with. I never actually saw them out on the track, so all I have is second hand reports via stories that were making the rounds of the pits, but I do know they didn't stay very long.

I'm more concerned with integration with safety features like airbags. I'd love to do an EV conversion of some fairly pedestrian car with my daughter for her first car, but I'm likely to take a fairly pedestrian donor car, and even a couple grand is going to get a car with airbags that need to integrate with the various sensors (including, as I understand it, ECU and engine sensors) to say when to fire.

Honda Prelude and similiar have ~100hp and pretty decent weight distribution.

However airbags and similar systems may be too risky litigation-wise.

For anyone as confused as I was: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_tank#Racing_fuel_cell

Particularly as fuel cell engines have been researched.

Today the range would be pretty bad though, but probably fine for a classic car grocery getter or trailer/show queen.

I'm not sure where all the rest are going to go, but probably most will be in the engine compartment somewhere.

I could also use the space where the muffler was, but I'd have to make sure there's enough weight in the front of the car to offset it.

EDIT: hence the flatter/thinner batteries we see in EVs.