If a working chameleon circuit turns drivers into Tesla-holes, sure. 
Late last night I heard the screen door slam
And a full self-santizing taxi took away my old man
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They paved paradise
and put in an AI generated VR simulation.
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Works great. Love the car. /s
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I’ve got no love for Elon Musk, but just wanted to point out that BB readers should think twice before perpetuating the alt right myth that EV vehicles are more prone to catch fire than fossil fuel vehicles. It’s just not true.
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… if your thesis is “Tesla does not have a safety problem,” it’s going to take more than that 
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Or vomit, from when some drunk person inevitably throws up in the taxi. At least it’ll be sanitized vomit (but only on the outside).
Are those the links that have been debunked on the BBS a dozen or so times?
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So, does this mean that Tesla gave up on the idea of abandoning its patents at some point? Curious about the ramifications there. Like, did someone go ahead and implement some technology that was supposedly patented with the understanding that it would be legally safe to do so, only to be caught when the policy was walked back?
(Haylookit, that was almost exactly ten years ago.)
Muskrats keep posting a “study” done by an insurance industry organization that claims Teslas burn less often than ICE vehicles, but it ignored that there are orders of magnitude more ICE vehicles on the road than Teslas, so it was junk science. The stats from the junk study still float about the internet and pop up to stink things up periodically.
Here’s a thread where the phenomenon was discussed but I think the actual misinformation posts were rightfully removed.
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I thought we had immune systems for germs?
No, they’re not. These are a separate study in Norway, which is why the links are translated. Unlike the other one it sounds like they are trying to take into account the number of vehicles in use. I do still wonder about the severity of fires though – part of the problem wasn’t just that EVs can catch fire, but that they can’t be put out.
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Thank you for clicking on the unidentified links so we didn’t have to!
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… also that pesky issue of being stuck inside during the burning and/or drowning 
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The mental images projected by posts in this topic are really, really unsettling for me.
I want to counter that.
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That’s an improvement over the reports @DukeTrout mentioned, but afaict the Norway studies still don’t account for the age of the vehicles (though I didn’t read the whole thing). Relatively new EVs catching fire is a whole different animal than 25-year-old ICE vehicles catching fire.
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