Two people killed in fiery Tesla crash with no one driving

Re:Two people killed in fiery Tesla crash with no one driving by gugagore on Sunday April 18, 2021 @06:20PM (#26857037)

But what previous thing is most analogous to batteries on cars? Cellphones and hoverboards are so much tinier. Maybe this isn't the same issue specifically, and some scale of government can require a tax to fund e.g. more education or training.

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Re:Two people killed in fiery Tesla crash with no one driving by fastball on Sunday April 18, 2021 @08:51PM (#26858114)

I'm confused why something needs to be equivalent to batteries in cars?

Do you know what's not equivalent to an electric car? A fertilizer plant catching on fire. And you guessed it, that's also handled by the fire department.

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Re:Two people killed in fiery Tesla crash with no one driving by klmadfejno on Sunday April 18, 2021 @10:04PM (#26858495)

Does it? That sounds like the kind of thing that gets some sort of higher tier involvement. Is there not higher jurisdiction for managing larger fires that require more than the local crew?

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Re:Two people killed in fiery Tesla crash with no one driving by Spooky23 on Sunday April 18, 2021 @08:54PM (#26858132)

Lots of stuff... hazmats, grain elevators, etc.

It’s not unreasonable for firemen to put out fires. It’s just a novel path that requires training.

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Re:Two people killed in fiery Tesla crash with no one driving by FatalLogic on Sunday April 18, 2021 @09:34PM (#26858352)

>But what previous thing is most analogous to batteries on cars?

Large tanks of volatile, flammable, potentially-explosive liquid in proximity to ignition sources in the car?

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Re:Two people killed in fiery Tesla crash with no one driving by KptMarchewa on Sunday April 18, 2021 @07:02PM (#26857361)

Maybe cars powered by literally thousands of explosions per second?

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Re:Two people killed in fiery Tesla crash with no one driving by caf on Sunday April 18, 2021 @08:59PM (#26858150)

I freely admit this is a pedantic point, but it's extraordinarily doubtful that any road car reaches 2000 ignitions per second (the threshold for "thousands").

In a 4-stroke engine each cylinder ignites once every two revolutions, so even a 12-cylinder engine wouldn't reach 2000 ignitions per second until 20,000 RPM.

A more typical case - say, a 6 cylinder engine hitting the redline at 7,000RPM is experiencing 350 ignitions per second - so, hundreds rather than thousands.

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Re:Two people killed in fiery Tesla crash with no one driving by KptMarchewa on Monday April 19, 2021 @12:53PM (#26864964)

Thanks.

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Re:Two people killed in fiery Tesla crash with no one driving by gugagore on Sunday April 18, 2021 @07:12PM (#26857437)

So batteries on cars is analogous to cars? I mean, could be. Maybe the EV battery is just like a gasoline tank, but something suggests that there are important differences.

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