Even a monkey can operate things. My kids could hack my iPhone before they were 2. Press enough buttons and things happen. It doesn't mean they know what they're doing.

Funny thing is, if he pulled the car to the side and got out, his butt leaving the seat puts the car in Park automatically. I'm not buying his story.

Probably, but bigger legs equals added weight and added drag, reducing payload. Everything is a trade-off.

They do seem to have some jetting at top for balance. I’d imagine the stresses are lessened by using the main engines at bottom. Also, I believe they use 3 of the 9 Merlin engines for reentry and landing.

What a moronic, uneducated comment. The millionaire solution makes refurbishment far more costly than simply relighting 3 of the 9 engines and using a guidance system to land on a platform. Do you have any idea of the effects of saltwater? Of course not. Not to mention the stresses that chutes can put on the rocket…

Did I get under your skin? Is your Google broke? Mine works just fine and it found this right away: http://www.motorauthority.com/news/1091439_n…

Google fires in those cars. You'll find it. Unfortunately we don't know definitive numbers. And I like to defend against misinformation. Tesla has its faults, I don't deny that. It's just people, seemingly you're one of them, that has some kind of irrational fear or bias of the car that you feel the need to spread…

Find me the statistics and I would. Can't find a breakdown unfortunately. However, who was it Dick VanDyke that had his brand new Jag go up in flames in CA? It happens to more than just Yugos. Trust me.

Well obviously there was an ignition source (static spark usually). Nothing happens by magic, this case not excluded.

If we’re restricting fires to the US then that makes 2 fires for Tesla. Do the math, Tesla still comes out >10X less often.

How do you get 100 million when I already told you 1.2 Billion? Tesla reported many months ago the S was over 1 billion miles. And 10,000 miles?? What? Even mine has 35,000 and I’d say I’m the below average user. So your conclusions are way off. Should this fire have happened? No, but then again we don’t know if this…

“According to the U.S Federal Highway Administration data, roughly 2,980 billion miles were driven, on average, per year on U.S. roads during this period. Roughly 90 highway vehicle fires and 0.15 highway vehicle fire deaths were reported per billion miles driven.”

On average, 90 highway vehicle fires per billion miles…

Gas cars quite often DO go up in flames at the pumps. Videos of it all over the place. So common it barely makes the news.