Re:Two people killed in fiery Tesla crash with no one driving
by KptMarchewa on Sunday April 18, 2021 @07:02PM
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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
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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.
Re:Two people killed in fiery Tesla crash with no one driving
by KptMarchewa on Monday April 19, 2021 @12:53PM
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Thanks.