The most recent Firestone tires implicated were fine - sort of. The suspension on the Fords were soft and rolled over easily, so Ford required the inflation on the Firestones to be far too low, allowing the tires to lose traction and avoid the roll-over.

It isn’t “In the end, it is always a cost-benefit analysis,” it is a profit-liability analysis.

Not before being washed into the soil or storm drain. It’s the airborne particles that are the main problem. Still - very easy to determine the origin.

The problem for humans is the size of the particulates - not the particulates themselves. Not sure how “particulate filters” are functioning in many of those cars - they can mainly trap the largest particles which carry the largest weight, but those are also the particles that settle rapidly out of the air, leaving…

Did Sliders get renewed?

Please, don’t let it be that they know the driver is Axe Cop.

Maybe they didn’t want to talk much as a patrol car took that exit going past the disabled truck before the collision.

I think disabling their truck would interfere with that delivery and that driving around the obstacle would be the better cost-basis choice.

Typically it’s in a place the driver cannot easily reach for the specific reason that turning that fuel pump back on without seeing that the fuel lines are intact is generally worse for everyone.

There are hundreds to thousands of miles of tunnels. I would lean towards forced air ventilation with combustible gas detectors at the exhaust to keep the combustible gas below the problem point, but that means paying for thousands of horsepower in ventilation when just keeping the electrical cabling in good shape…

Perhaps - but there still needs to be an ignition source, so maybe a combination. Switch gear will be explosion proof - that is no spark will lead to a flame escaping the switch, but failure of jacketing on high voltage cables can certainly produce this. It’s not unheard of to find a failure in the wall of a sewer…

The latest I have is from 2007 showing the US moved 2,349 Billion ton-miles by truck and 1,522 Billion ton-miles by train with trucks doing the majority of short-range hauling.

This policy is to decrease turn time. It takes less time to get people to carry their own luggage off the plane than for someone to go through the hold placing bags and looking for bags. It also cuts down on lost bag claims, damaged bag claims, any other claims from handling bags. Every bag in customer hands means one…

Another driverless car crashing and going up in flames.

The size of the particulates matters and the ability to be airborne - practically by definition the exhaust particulates are airborne. It’s that powdery fine dust of carbon soot that’s what penetrates deeply into lungs, not chunks of tire torn off directly onto the street.

Heavy non-electric vehicles produce more fine particulants in the exhaust, the size the isn’t easily exported from lungs, harming pedestrians on a continuous basis.

Not to worry. Just wait a while and the flames will move within reach.

Looks like the decorative fiberglass shell burned. The exhaust pipe looks to be fine.

Things did seem to take a turn for the worse when the asteroid hit.

I’m betting the owner of those parking spaces isn’t getting paid by the company getting those truck deliveries. Further thought - they didn’t used to have the bollards and didn’t have the guard rail and did have trucks dragging trailers over the last car in the line regardless of where it was. And his employees didn’t…