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Yes and that happens all the time. /s
600 times a year. It happens so frequently, it's not news, like mass shootings.
Vehicle fires report | NFPA Research https://share.google/BoVl5eecmZQF51wcs
That people were covered in gasoline? I don't think the stat says that.
It literally does. Hundreds of times every year in the US alone. Car crashes can be pretty fucking horrible, man. Fuel spilling out of the tank is fairly common in bad accidents.
A car fire doesn't have to mean more than a couple of wires catching fire due to an overheated engine.
It's not like the infamous beancounter case where GM failed to recall cars where the gas tank had a high risk of catching fire.
Because it was cheaper to pay damages than to repair the car. Car fires are common, but deadly car fires are not.
Just because people die in a car that caught fire, doesn't mean they died BECAUSE the car caught fire.
That's the kind of fire we are talking about when an EV catches fire.
You’ve made it pretty clear that actual statistics aren’t enough for you to change your mind, so I don’t think there’s any point in continuing this conversation.
Those statistics are not specific on the things we are debating.
I'm not claiming people aren't dying in car fires in ICE cars, what I'm claiming is that it is more common to die BECAUSE of a car fire in an EV. (when weighing that EV cars are still a minority).
And we don't have that stat.
And trucks are NOT cars. Trucks are different because they have potential flammable cargo.
- You, yesterday.
You didn’t even bother to read my reply correcting your misinterpretation of that paragraph about all highway vehicles, so again, there’s no point in continuing. You are not arguing in good faith.