OT: Gas shortage

There are answers but they aren't politically correct. Nothing that actually works (that "science" thing) is politically correct.

They WERTE fiklling trassh bags ---- Haven't hearf of any blowing up YRT.

Democrats all say that. It's harder to blame their disastrous economy on them if it's so obvious that we'll never be as well off as in the "good ol' days".

Clinton or Obama? ...or Biden (i.e. Harris)?

Between Trump and Harris?

The Colonial pipeline *starts* Texas. You're a gazinta state, not a gazouta state. I'm surprised that you're not knee deep in oil from all the backup.

For some maybe. LOL. Take the doctor and his attorney buddy in Houston a few weeks ago. Left the doctors house in his Tesla with his buddy. Leaving home and 800 feet later a firey crash into some trees, going 30 mph. The fire department had a difficult time putting those batteries out once the caught fire.

And an odd side note, no on was in the drivers seat. They found 2 unidentifiable, not even enough for dental records, bodies in the back seat.

Hey Leon, wait 'til you see what my car can do on it own. Hop in the back seat with me, this is going to be fun.

From:

The company didn?t have an immediate comment on the report. It?s cooperating with investigators.

Police with the Harris County Precinct 4 Constable?s Office initially said that ?no one? was in the driver?s seat, which led to speculation that the vehicle?s Autopilot technology may have been a factor. Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk took to Twitter to refute that notion.

William Varner, 59, and Everette Talbot, 69, were both found dead when first responders arrived on scene. Talbot was seated in the right front passenger seat with his upper torso ?in a forward-leaning position, with both arms rolled forward." Varner was seated in the left rear passenger seat with his upper torso ?in a rear-leaning position, with both arms rolled back and in a pugilistic pose.? ?

Somebody mentioned Darwin a little earlier in the thread. This was written in another article:

"...on Monday, Tesla founder Elon Musk wrote on Twitter that "data logs recovered so far show Autopilot was not enabled & this car did not purchase FSD" -- a reference to "full self-driving" capability.

"Moreover,'' he continued, "standard Autopilot would require lane lines to turn on, which this street did not have." "

Perhaps the good doctor had more money than brains.

At ~8 lbs/gal that would be about 375 gallons. You think?

Yeah!

Sounds like a "Here hold my Beer" moment!

The best part is that you don't need anyone to hold your beer!

And yet no body was found in the drivers seat.... The front seat could have been holding the doctors bag and or the attorneys brief case to fool the vehicle into believing some one was in the front drivers seat...

And yet, you cannot argue with 2 cooked bodies and neither was in the drivers seat.

That would explain the crash but not how the car made it to the crash site.

That was the obvious.

I'm not saying that you're wrong, but *something* deformed the steering wheel and I'm pretty sure that a doctor's bag [do doctors actually carry bags anymore ;-) ] and/or an attorney's briefcase would not:

On my Hondas, the weight range to turn on the "Passenger Air Bag Off" light is somewhere >0 up to 65 lbs. I am assuming (I know, dangerous) that the Tesla has a higher threshold to determine if a passenger is in the driver's seat. Heck, I don't even know if it checks, but if it does, I'd bet it's higher than the weight of the average 10 YO. i.e. much heavier than your average brief case.

If this had happened on NCIS or CSI, there would have been a multiple perfectly situated security cameras to determine where the occupants were sitting. ;-) Or they'd build a scale (or maybe even full-sized) model and recreate the crash to see if the driver could have been knocked into the rear seat by the impact.

The authorities (or probably Tesla) may even be doing that in this case.

I can't argue, but I can speculate. There are studies that show that the "yielding seats" that many car makers use these days are actually more dangerous than non-yielding seats. Some say that the manufacturers can get away with using cheaper, inferior seats by claiming that the yielding feature absorbs the energy of the collision. Perhaps the seat failed allowing the driver to be thrown into the rear seat. Hopefully, a full forensic analysis of the vehicle will determine what actually happened.

(Do I know if Tesla uses yielding seats to keep the cost down? No. That's why I called this merely speculation.)

~4' x ~4' x ~4' x 8gal/ft^3 ~= 500gal * 6lbs/gal = 3000lbs.

It's purported to be gasoline (6lbs/gal), not water (8lbs/gal).

That's not the worst problem with lithium. The fires are pretty bad but if the lefties (i.e. communists) really cared about the environment, they'd look into the mining operations. Electric cars are NOT clean.

By passenger, I obviously meant "person".

Don't tell the Mafia! Hmm, I wonder if one was Jimmy Hoffa?

TMI!

Or it just leaking into the air poisoning everyone for miles around.

Gas burns and needs air. It doesn't go bang (not enough oxygen) and doesn't burn until the fuel is exhausted (i.e. doesn't need air).

Pt is the favorite fuel used in RTG used for deep space missions.

If that is a 4 ft cube it is 500 gallons when full. If it is a 5 dt cube it is 900+ gallons. Anf gasoline weighs 6 .3 lb per gallon - not 8 - so 3000 lbs is 476 gallond - about half a 5 ft cube. or almost a full 4 footer