Otherwise known as explosives, rocket fuel, and most kinds of batteries.
Authorities said they used 32,000 gallons of water to extinguish the flames because the vehicle's batteries kept reigniting. At one point, Herman said, deputies had to call Tesla to ask them how to put out the fire in the battery.
Where I used to work, they had a machine shop that used to work with magnesium, before my time. Firefighters had a rule if they got a call: don't go in.
Another place I used to hang around during college was a robotics research lab. They had a bunch of 1st or 2nd gen l Li-Poly batteries, in pouch form, to run their little robots. I was told to never use a any of the fire extinguishers hanging on the wall if there was a battery fire. I don
I get really angry when I read articles about people still doing these kind of extremely reckless and stupid things. It's must be by extreme chance that they didn't crash into another car full of people or house. Car manufacturers should also have a kill switch for these stupid cruise control gimmicks when there isn't anyone in the seat too.
If you are implying that these guys would not have driven at high speeds and crashed into a tree if the name of the system was simply called any other name you could possible think of, then I simply disagree.
Otherwise known as explosives, rocket fuel, and most kinds of batteries.
Authorities said they used 32,000 gallons of water to extinguish the flames because the vehicle's batteries kept reigniting. At one point, Herman said, deputies had to call Tesla to ask them how to put out the fire in the battery.
Where I used to work, they had a machine shop that used to work with magnesium, before my time. Firefighters had a rule if they got a call: don't go in.
Another place I used to hang around during college was a robotics research lab. They had a bunch of 1st or 2nd gen l
Li-Poly batteries, in pouch form, to run their little robots. I was told to never use a any of the fire extinguishers hanging on the wall if there was a battery fire. I don
Maybe they should also stop calling it "full self driving" on the sales sheet if the car can't drive itself...
Now aren't you glad the Ford Nucleon [wikipedia.org] didn't become a real thing?