Posted on 11/28/2016 9:26:24 AM PST by ilanilan
Motorist escapes unharmed from rare combustion near Lake Kinneret.
(Excerpt) Read more at jpost.com ...
Weird.
Have never seen it spark a car into flames before.
Was the driver talking with his Smart phone, texting with his IPad and using his vehicles GPS to confirm that he was where he knew he was?
CSC = Car Spontaneous Combustion
That’s the reason to stay off the cell phone when fueling your vehicle, too.
Static electricity destroying a car is a freak anomaly.
Once in a billion.
No! That is a myth perpetuated by a farce. Drop your cell phone (or a cigarette) in a bucket of gasoline! See what happens!
As in this case, statistics in the United States say that this overwhelmingly happens to women. They don’t want to stand and monitor the filling, so they get back in their cars.
So you don’t read the warnings about this on the gasoline pump when you refuel?
The solution per the article: “apply hand cream or wear gloves to prevent friction that causes static electricity buildup.”
How about “don’t slide across your seat and touch the nozzle before grounding yourself”?
You have to shut off the car before you can start pumping gas though the fuel valve.
Gasoline will extinguish a cigarette, but a cigarette can ignite gasoline fumes so it’s a parlor trick best left alone. Static electricity can also ignite gasoline fumes.
Hold that cigarette over the fuel filler nozzle in the fumes and see what happens.
Yes...and this wasn’t one of those billions. Explain to me why someone was videotaping a CC television screen when this just happened? If they had it on tape why would someone file the screen? Wouldn’t they just show the original video?
I once had a lady go ballistic on me, because I was using a cell phone at the pump.
So I did some research. This was several years ago, but at that time, there were no confirmed cases of a cell phone igniting a fire at a gas station.
The phone sends out radio waves, which in no way ignite gasoline (some gasoline tankers likely have CB radios installed). So the only way it could cause ignition would deal with the battery somehow sparking...but so could the battery in your watch, in theory. Honestly, the best chance for spark would be static electricity discharging when you touch the car or metal hose nozzle.
I continue to boldly use my phone near gasoline, with no regrets.
Nearly all gas pumps have video security monitors aimed so as to show license plates, to pursue people who drive off without paying.
I saw a video of it happen with a ‘kit car’. I remember it was yellow, with a plastic body. Sometimes plastics can really build up a lot of static charge.
Using an electrical device of any kind near gasoline fumes is probably not the best idea, no matter how rare actual ignition from a given electrical device may be. How many cell phones have themselves ignited in the past few years? Isn’t there a Samsung phone that is banned from certain airlines because of this? Pretty sure there is, their newest model, major embarrassment for Samsung.
With what kind of car?
I have a 2012 Ford that does not have this feature.
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