<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Well said and excellent point Bob!! <br>If the throttle were to stick open, I guess one could turn the key off like in a gas powered vehicle. But what if that failed? How do you disarm it unless the thought was put into it ahead of time?<br><br>I would assume that they would have already thought of running the main lines down the center of the car. I seriously doubt they would run them through the door posts, or roof of the car. <br>Another thing is safety of the batteries in an accident. Could they put the batteries in a fire proof area? Oxygen free perhaps? Heck, I'm sure they could figure a way to make them survive a crash. Look at the Flight Data Recorders in planes. They usually survive. <br>Of course, anything can happen. Batteries are dangerous, no doubt. But so is a full tank of gas. <br><br><div><strong><em><font color="#0000bf" face="comic sans ms"
size="3">Chris </font></em></strong></div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div><br><br>--- On <b>Tue, 3/31/09, Bob Richards <i><bob@toprudder.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Bob Richards <bob@toprudder.com><br>Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] For Electric eyes only.. lol<br>To: "General pattern discussion" <nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org><br>Date: Tuesday, March 31, 2009, 4:57 AM<br><br><div id="yiv1773814269"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;" valign="top"><div>It is human nature for one to fear what one does not understand. This is new stuff. There are lots of horror stories. As soon as there is some
understanding of what is involved, and perhaps some standards or conventions about cable placement (aka "fuel lines") battery placement (aka "fuel tank") then I don't think there will be any more fear than cutting into a conventional vehicle. Everyone knows there are not fuel lines running in the door posts - safe to cut there, etc. (Unless, of course, you happen upon one of Junior Johnson's old race cars - there might be some nitrous oxide inside the roll cage) ;-)</div>
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<div>I think the bigger fear should be how to disarm an electric vehicle. Same as with our airplanes, just because the prop is not turning does not mean it isn't armed!</div>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0in;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I was talking to a fireman a few days ago. . . . they are very nervous about electric / hybrid cars from a safety point of view. <br><br>Would you want to be cutting into a car with the Jaws of Life knowing that somewhere in the twisted wreckage is a 400S-20P Thunder Power LiPo?? Even if the batts are A123's, you still have some very large current carrying wires flopping around somewhere.<br><br>But hey, we're in a planetary emergency, right??</span></font>
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