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I love this idea! I can imagine it's totally impractical for many reasons (like leaving a "bigger on-fire debris" to the cars behind) but however it's a nice thought. Kind of James Bond eject button!

Thanks I'm happy to learn about ICE cars (before they vanish for good!). Tesla has none of these weak point, just a big one at the bottom. Knowing the Tesla spirit I'm sure they'll try to correct it but this will prove expensive and very difficult. And we don't want to see delays in production...

I'm not talking about safety. Tesla is a great and safe car. No doubt on that. Was talking about its potential to catch fire. I can't see what you find "specious" in my reasoning?

OK my reasoning is the following. Pretty simple in fact: the exposed surface of a Tesla is the entire battery pack (the whole lenght of the car in between the weels). The exposed surface of a gas car is its tank which I estimated taking 5 times less space. So basically if you hit a perforating...

Wrong. What stats are saying is 1 gas car out of 1000 catches fire. Tesla has 20.000 cars so its 1 out of 20.000. So its 20 times safer. This is wrong. It's 1 car out of 1000 cars DURING THE CARS LIFETIME. So let's say 10 years (car lifetime) and its being reasonable. Put the equation to 1...

I read a lot of posts here about statistics, that cars DO catch fire from time to time. Tesla is a car. It's therefore a non-event. All is fine. But what if a Tesla car has 5 times more probability to catch fire than normal car? Still acceptable? Yet maybe not the kind of Tesla standards you...