Lithium hadn’t really had catastrophic failures itself, I’m speaking more fake from car accidents. Tesla’s awfully inaccurate autopilot or self driving or whatever, and when those cells are damaged, they’re dangerous.
Ice engines are mostly explosive in movies lol. I think Mythbusters or some from the show shot at gas tanks that were full and partially filled hoping to ignite.
I agree on all the energy stuff, were stuck with corporate interests ruining the environment so they can have even more profit!
Tesla is one company run by a fascist idiot. He decided to market regular driver assistance features as “auto pilot” and idiots think they can sleep in the car while it drives them off a cliff.
Most modern cars have some form of adaptive cruse and lane assist. My car (not a Tesla) has lane centering where it will follow the lines on the road along with adaptive cruse and makes highway driving way less stressful, but you still have to keep hold of the steering wheel and be ready to take over as it’s far from perfect.
It will sometimes follow off ramps and when lanes split or merge with odd lines it will lose tracking, but as long as you pay attention I’ve not had any issues like some describe with the wheel “jerking hard” to randomly turn. I literally just tighten my grip when I feel it wanting to drift toward a different lane or off ramp and it will keep going straight.
The tech isn’t inherently dangerous if people use it correctly.
As for ICE cars catching fire, they literally do. Not like the movies but an accident that is bad enough and there is a fuel leak that has a high chance to catch fire. Fuel lines can also dry rot or the 12V system can fry itself if there is a fault in a place that won’t hit a fuse.
Gasoline and diesel cars experience 1,530 fires per 100,000 vehicles, compared to just 25 fires for EVs.
That’s from over a year ago, but again goes to show that gas cars catch fire orders of magnitude more often per capita. Oddly enough, hybrid shows over twice the rate of non-hybrid ICE apparently due to them being more complex than traditional ICE or full EVs.
Lithium hadn’t really had catastrophic failures itself, I’m speaking more fake from car accidents. Tesla’s awfully inaccurate autopilot or self driving or whatever, and when those cells are damaged, they’re dangerous.
Ice engines are mostly explosive in movies lol. I think Mythbusters or some from the show shot at gas tanks that were full and partially filled hoping to ignite.
I agree on all the energy stuff, were stuck with corporate interests ruining the environment so they can have even more profit!
Tesla is one company run by a fascist idiot. He decided to market regular driver assistance features as “auto pilot” and idiots think they can sleep in the car while it drives them off a cliff.
Most modern cars have some form of adaptive cruse and lane assist. My car (not a Tesla) has lane centering where it will follow the lines on the road along with adaptive cruse and makes highway driving way less stressful, but you still have to keep hold of the steering wheel and be ready to take over as it’s far from perfect.
It will sometimes follow off ramps and when lanes split or merge with odd lines it will lose tracking, but as long as you pay attention I’ve not had any issues like some describe with the wheel “jerking hard” to randomly turn. I literally just tighten my grip when I feel it wanting to drift toward a different lane or off ramp and it will keep going straight.
The tech isn’t inherently dangerous if people use it correctly.
As for ICE cars catching fire, they literally do. Not like the movies but an accident that is bad enough and there is a fuel leak that has a high chance to catch fire. Fuel lines can also dry rot or the 12V system can fry itself if there is a fault in a place that won’t hit a fuse.
Also a quick google: https://www.evengineeringonline.com/did-you-know-ice-vehicles-pose-fire-risks-60-times-higher-than-evs/
That’s from over a year ago, but again goes to show that gas cars catch fire orders of magnitude more often per capita. Oddly enough, hybrid shows over twice the rate of non-hybrid ICE apparently due to them being more complex than traditional ICE or full EVs.