The extremely dangerous high pressure vessel right behind the driver’s head seems like it’s not worth the trade off there… Better carry a bomb around just in case the car rolls over. /s
A fuel tank is not a pressure vessel (apart from being sealed to keep fumes in). If you get a puncture in your gas tank, it doesn’t immediately and violently explode, it just leaks fuel out. Even if it does catch fire, it would not be as violent an explosion as a pressure vessel failure. In most scenarios it would burn, but not explode.
Sorry, but as someone who has seen at LEAST 3 movies in his lifetime, I can say with absolute certainty that just about anything will cause a car to explode.
I know the gas tank is not a pressure vessel, I made two separate statements.
My point is that we already do dangerous things. I don’t think it’s a huge jump to put a pressurized nitrogen tank in a car. Car manufacturers even tried putting hydrogen tanks in cars. It’s possible to make it safe.
Fuel is necessary to the function of the engine. If cars didn’t need it, they wouldn’t have it. We’ve figured out C4 pretty well, but we don’t stuff the doors full of it.
These thrusters could maybe help you if you fell down a particularly short cliff. Otherwise, if you get in an accident severe enough to send you rolling, you do not want high pressure nitrogen tanks right next to your head.
The extremely dangerous high pressure vessel right behind the driver’s head seems like it’s not worth the trade off there… Better carry a bomb around just in case the car rolls over. /s
Sure it’s dangerous, but so is that giant tank of fuel that’s in the car. I think we figured out pressure vessels pretty well
A fuel tank is not a pressure vessel (apart from being sealed to keep fumes in). If you get a puncture in your gas tank, it doesn’t immediately and violently explode, it just leaks fuel out. Even if it does catch fire, it would not be as violent an explosion as a pressure vessel failure. In most scenarios it would burn, but not explode.
Sorry, but as someone who has seen at LEAST 3 movies in his lifetime, I can say with absolute certainty that just about anything will cause a car to explode.
I know the gas tank is not a pressure vessel, I made two separate statements.
My point is that we already do dangerous things. I don’t think it’s a huge jump to put a pressurized nitrogen tank in a car. Car manufacturers even tried putting hydrogen tanks in cars. It’s possible to make it safe.
Sure, but Tesla is the last company I’d trust to do it
I’m just happy someone is trying something new. Let someone else do it better
We already do dangerous things therefore all dangerous things are A-OK come on bro we’ll figure it out.
Oh my god just stop talking.
Fuel is necessary to the function of the engine. If cars didn’t need it, they wouldn’t have it. We’ve figured out C4 pretty well, but we don’t stuff the doors full of it.
These thrusters could maybe help you if you fell down a particularly short cliff. Otherwise, if you get in an accident severe enough to send you rolling, you do not want high pressure nitrogen tanks right next to your head.
Bumpers are there for if maybe you get in an accident. We don’t build safety systems for maybe
Bumpers also don’t explode in exactly the type of situation where they would ostensibly be useful
Airbags do