Tesla bursts into flames on highway, leaving nothing but metal debris behind (photos)

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And let me tell you all of that water is going to be super yummy afterward.

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I like to think I would still hate Musk even if I was obscenely wealthy.

But I also wouldn’t feel right about being so obscenely wealthy because I don’t think it’s healthy for a society to allow any one person to acquire so much power and resources.

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I know I would still hate Musk even if he were poor. He’s an arrogant self-serving bigot, to the point where his own daughter disowned him. People like that are awful. Envy doesn’t enter into it at all.

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I don’t know why anyone would want to be like him. Why would anyone want to be a dick?

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Ok, I just read that article. Ignoring that it has no source for number of fires, you still changed a huge part of the stats – that its based on car sales.

Fires per 100k cars on the road in a year and fires per 100k cars sold in a year are drastically different things, and the latter is irrelevant. If we take your value of 173k fires per year divided by the 287 million cars registered in the US, that would be 60 car fires per year per 100k vehicles. The claim in your earlier post of 1530 fires per 100k ICE cars per year is still drastically wrong.

Also, my old hand-me-down minivan caught fire in college. It required 30 minutes and $300 of repair before I was back on the road. That incident and a car that burns to the frame despite 50 tons of water might both be fires, but they’re very different in terms of public impact

Put me down as another in the pro-EV, anti-BS camp

eta: no government office tracks fires by engine type, so as much as it pains me to suggest that autoinsuranceez[dot]com might not be a reliable source of original research, their per 100k sold values are presumably bs too

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The quoted stat is more suspect than that. It’s 1530 per “100k cars sold this year”, which turns out to be awkward - you have to turn the 100k sold this year into a discounted age model of all cars on the road. So it over-estimates gas, and probably underestimates EV, since there are plenty of old gas cars around, and most EVs are new. I’m ready to bet most gas fires are in older cars…
What shite methodology.

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All right, I’m only gonna this again one last time.

The 1.5% is a YEARLY number, not a DAILY number. That’s the difference between 25,000 fires a day vs 400 or so a day. (And those numbers come from the government numbers, not from thin air)

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You promise? Because people already addressed what you just said.

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I got that it was yearly, not daily, but can you please reference the government numbers that support this? Because the debunking article that I posted upthread included the following passage:

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Still 100% bullshit.

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