Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
This General Chat area started off as a place for people to talk about things that are off topic, however it has quickly evolved into a community and has become an integral part of the GAW experience for many of us.
Based on its evolving needs and plenty of user feedback, we are trying to bring some order and institute some rules. Please make sure you read these rules and participate in the spirit of this community.
Rules for General Chat
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Be respectful to each other. This is of utmost importance, and comments may be removed if deemed not respectful.
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Avoid long drawn out arguments. This should be a place to relax, not to waste your time needlessly.
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Personal anecdotes, puzzles, cute pics/clips - everything welcome
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Please do not spam at the top level. If you have a lot to post each day, try and post them all together in one top level comment
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Try keep things light. If you are bringing in deep stuff, try not to go overboard.
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Things that are clearly on-topic for this board should be posted as a separate post and not here (except if you are new and still getting the feel of this place)
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If you find people violating these rules, deport them rather than start a argument here.
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Feel free to give feedback as these rules are expected to keep evoloving
In short, imagine this thread to be a local community hall where we all gather and chat daily. Please be respectful to others in the same way
So we had a "big" event happen nearby. 2 brand new teslas smashed into eachother on the highway, causing a massive fire that lasted for 10hrs due to their batteries being extremely volatile. Noone died in it, but it was funny seeing the news reporters talk about it while also trying to suggest the cars are safe/environmentally-helpful.
They're a pretty big elephant too. To follow up on the original story: the fire finally went out after they spent 17hrs isolating it and shutting down a pretty busy portion of the highway. If you're paying more for the vehicles, paying more for the fuel (right now it costs 15% more to recharge an electric vehicle than the average car), take longer to fuel said car, and are prone to hotter/harder to deal with fires in accidents, what's the benefit? A status symbol?
I mean in a lot of the newer gas cars it's a similar thing too, or they cost a fortune to repair. I worked 55hrs over the past week, and about 80% of it was dealing with 4 cars whose engines had extremely brittle cylinders. Instead of adding OEM parts that'd break again after 4-6 months, we "borrowed" parts out of 2 2008 chrysler minivans.
But what about the ten hours of toxic fumes going into our atmosphere from those car batteries burning?