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Re:Tesla Cybertruck by pesfandiar on Friday November 22, 2019 @12:44AM (#21603081)
The main reason cars with internal-combustion engines catch on fire during collisions must be a breach in the fuel system. While your point about rescuing passengers is valid, I'm not sure fires alone could support it.
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Re:Tesla Cybertruck by sonofhans on Friday November 22, 2019 @12:49AM (#21603114)
That’s what this guy thought, too, just a few weeks ago. The URL tells the tale: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/10/23/man-died-...

Teslas burn just fine, in fact much more unpredictably than ICE cars.

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Re:Tesla Cybertruck by bonestamp2 on Friday November 22, 2019 @03:26AM (#21603842)
Yup.

Side note, the anecdote seems misinformed, "The car is so overengineered. It’s so techy, it makes you want to buy a Chevy pickup truck." GM makes more money on trucks than on any other line so you better believe their is more R&D and technology in those vehicles than almost anything else in their lineup -- the only exception being the Cadillacs with SuperCruise. I'm guessing that lawyer has not been in a modern pickup truck.

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Re:Tesla Cybertruck by el_benhameen on Friday November 22, 2019 @12:46AM (#21603093)
The big chunk of lithium that powers a Tesla will burn just fine. I think it’s a valid point.
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Re:Tesla Cybertruck by tushar-r on Friday November 22, 2019 @12:50AM (#21603116)
Tesla's catch fire as well - [pdf warning] https://www.tesla.com/sites/default/files/downloads/2016_Mod...

Battery fires are worse than gasoline fires from what I've read: (2016) - https://jalopnik.com/tesla-model-s-batteries-violently-explo... (2017) - https://jalopnik.com/tesla-model-s-torched-in-weird-supercha...

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Re:Tesla Cybertruck by catalogia on Friday November 22, 2019 @12:50AM (#21603117)
Conceivably, the fire could be another car burning. If you have two disabled cars next to each other after a collision and one of them is on fire, people in the car next to it could be cooked if they don't get out.

There are many valid reasons first responders might have to remove people from cars quickly.

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Re:Tesla Cybertruck by mattlondon on Friday November 22, 2019 @02:21AM (#21603546)
The person(s) you hit, or that hits you, may be driving a petrol vehicle.
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