This is supposedly a EV battery ejection system to make battery fires easier to control. Pedestrians and cyclists had best say goodbye to their lower legs.
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Im assuming this would only be an option for first responders.
Somewhere in a Vega’s parking lot… Pop! Poppop! Pop pop! Pop pop pop! Pop! Pop!
Pop pop pop pop pop!
Pop pop!My immediate thought was, why not use this to enable standardized quick-swappable batteries? Maybe not with quite as much ejection force though.
My first thought when it popped out the side of the car was “I wonder if I could surf that battery across the road…”
Good luck ejecting a spicy pillow(it’ll probably get stuck in place)
Was my problem, now it’s your problem. It’s called hot potato.
Just wait till the car gets hacked and some one starts remotely erecting batteries.
Erecting?
I sat here for a good two minutes trying to find something witty and funny to say Finally all I really want to do is tell you that you used the wrong word.
Could be worse.
In my job they send a copy of all the health and safety stuff to each employee once a year. Part of that is something about fire safety.
For some reason they didn’t send me the German original version but the English translation instead.
In there it says that the fire safety officer alone is responsible for all erections.
We had a good laugh.
If you dig far enough Into Osha saftey documentation, you’ll find a page where they advocate the use of a saftey wench.
Lots of work to do
Yeah stupid auto correct. I’m just leaving it
Ok but what was it meant to be? Ejecting?
Fuck it if the car can erect its own batteries I think it’s overengineered
Fits perfectly with the general “fuck everyone else” nature of cars.
Of certain car owners.
nope. of cars in general, at least in North America
too big, too offensive, too many resources
Cars and car culture in general really. The owners are usually lovely people but it’s their car that is polluting, getting in the way, injuring people, boiling the planet etc.
to be fair, car tailpipe pollution is the least of our concerns compared to the general production of garbage with total disregard to emissions.
it’s why EVs won’t really save us, but the car industry.
(you also forgot to mention the awful NOISE some of them subject us to, but i digress)
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So the damage isn’t in hitting people, but the overall effect on society. Cars require buildings be more spread out to accommodate wider roads with less space for bikes, pedestrians, and mass transit. Parking spreads out buildings even more. This promotes isolated, insular individuals instead of an actual community. There is such a massive difference in human health due to the base level stress that comes from living in a car-centric hellscape many obese people lose weight despite eating more when they leave America.
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Chill the fuck out. Nobody here is blaming every individual for not waging a protracted peoples campaign against 4 wheeled vehicles, the start of this thread was ‘the general “fuck everyone else” nature of cars.’ due to the damaging effect they have on society
And fuck any of you fat asses trying to blame cars for your fat ass.
Once again, you’re looking at a systemic issue and blaming individuals. That might make you feel good, but it’s not useful for solving it.
Cars and car culture in general really. The owners are usually lovely people but it’s their car that is polluting, getting in the way, injuring people, boiling the planet etc.
Hey, I’m not involved in this conversation. Just wanted to let you know that you look like a huge idiot right now.
Did you actually read what I wrote? Try reading it again. Keep re-reading it until you get the concept that I am not hating anyone.
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“Not all car owners”
/sj
many of you will die, but it’s a sacrifice my SUV is willing to make
I’m picturing a crew of emergency responders approaching. They all get taken out “in the name of safety”, and the rest decide to vote with the legs they still have and refuse to approach
Why not just make nonincendiary batteries…?
Oh I just got an idea how to be a billionaire!
How’s that
The fact that it’s a battery means that it’s incindiary
Are all batteries incendiary?
More or less. Batteries store electricity with a reversible chemical reaction, and one of those reactions is oxidation. It isn’t exactly true to say a battery generates electricity by burning its cathode, but because it requires elements that can readily oxidize with a lot of energy, it’s not tough for that oxidation to turn into fire if something goes wrong.
An incendiary is something designed to cause a fire and if that big ass battery catches fire enough that it needs a fucking ejection port then they clearly aren’t designing it enough to not cause a fire so close enough so far as I’m concerned. My phone’s lithium battery has never caught fire for example.
Just because your phone hasn’t caught fire doesn’t mean it can’t cause fire. If it’s a lithium battery then, by design, it is more of an incendiary than other types of batteries. Lithium batteries provide their own fuel, oxygen (it makes it) and energy. That’s why all lithium batteries (not just cars) are hard to put out.
I imagine you have criteria for what constitutes when it can become one, but I don’t think your phone battery will survive a car accident and then the subsequent burning of hundreds of other batteries burning right beside it. AFAIK, there are no protections for lithium batteries that make them fail safe, which is why there are restrictions on where they can be used or transported.
Yea! Shoot the burning battery right under the fuel tanker in the lane next to you!
If this becomes common, eventually there will be a chain reaction on a crowded grid-locked freeway.
It will work something like this:
Oh the huge manatee!
Oh, I thought you were referring to the Ford Nucleon…
That might have been safer than the OP concept.
Another point: When those batteries get bad, don’t they blow up? And wouldn’t this make the battery jam in place?
If anything, the force will probably make it worse. Why not just kick the unstable, explosive battery that’s now stuck in place.
Dumb idea.
Yep. There is a lot of dumb in this design. I’d say some manager pissed his pants about his ass in an EV and demanded a solution… any solution.
Tfw the car catch fire and you’re stepping out but the car yeet the problem right back at you
Stepping outk if it’s not a Tesla ;)
No. American drivers sit on the left side. This would only kill filthy passengers.
No.
Besides the fact that I hate this uppity way of saying no, the first commenter didn’t really say whether or not the driver was the one getting out.
Not that I’m disputing any of what you’re saying, but how is “No.” uppity?
If I had to take a guess, it’s about perceived tone. Connotation becomes extremely important in online discourse.
Rather than “No. Here is the rest of what I have to say,” I recommend “Nah, here is the rest of what I have to say.”
It’s a lot less forceful, more conversational.
The point make the no very harsh in my mental voice. "No. Because… " compared to “No, because…”
I dunno, like I just imagine someone saying it in real life and it’s either very uppity or very neckbeard, fedora, know-it-all-y. Like “um ackshually. No.”
That kind of vibe?
Like, the comment could’ve just started with the second sentence, without the “No.”, you know?
And that’s the only way you can read that?
It’s the way I read it. I’m just sharing my perspective, and that’s what I’m able to do. Diplomatic phrasing/tone isn’t something everyone can write fluently. 🤷♂️ The “No.” just had no place in there either, which is what set the tone. The message could’ve been delivered without the “No.”, because there was no question or statement, really. You see what I’m saying?
I do, but I’m not certain you do. It isn’t flattering.
“Uppity”. Youre just assuming I’m a frequent passenger or p########n.
I am not assuming you are anything. I’m not sure what that redacted word is supposed to be either. 😶
Ped. A fucking filthy ped. How dare you.
Pedestrian?
Wow you just said it, fully. Braver person than i.
This totally won’t be abused in case of road rage, absolutely not.
Yarg ye sons of scallywags, fire the starboard cannons!
RIP first responders.
