She’s best known as playing Howard Stern’s wife in Private Parts.
@Tesla This is what happened to my husband and his car today. No accident,out of the blue, in traffic on Santa Monica Blvd. Thank you to the kind couple who flagged him down and told him to pull over. And thank god my three little girls weren’t in the car with him pic.twitter.com/O4tPs5ftVo
— Mary McCormack (@marycmccormack) June 16, 2018
He’s lucky he got out before the blowtorch started or he would’ve been trapped in the burning car.
You can’t get around the need for any vehicle expected to travel a few hundred miles to store the energy to do so. Gasoline, diesel, batteries, supercapacitors, they all store a lot of energy onboard the vehicle…by necessity.
Engineers have had over a hundred years to make hydrocarbon fuel tanks and systems safer, and it takes quite an effort to get them to fail. Electrics such as the Tesla still have some work needed to prevent runaway discharge when the battery is damaged, and even the power management systems fail in both charge and discharge modes.
Electric cars and trucks have their uses for specific applications, but it’ll be a while before I sit my own ass down inside one.
Howard Stern
Electric Connection
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Space Oddity
When those lithium batteries get
wet or hot or short out. watch out!
They will dump ALL of their energy
instantaneously… Dude fell asleep with a
charging cell phone to his head.Battery
shorted and his face was burned off…
Uncle Al
Those tests are supposed to be monitored or performed by the NTSB. Not a peep. Ever. It’s like they are part of the federal government or something.
I tried to find some shit on Mary McCormack. There’s nothing bad. I’ll ride her wave, for now.
electric vehicles work … as long as they are on a specific course designed to deliver specific electricity to run the vehicle to a specifically built destination (think DC Metro)
face it … the day an autonomous electrically-propelled vehicle can deliver an inhabitant to a randomly specific destination for random individual needs, within a reasonable economically-feasible acceptability, is a ways off.
.. but, hey … burn on, if it makes you feel good about yourself
Good luck with that subway, Chicago.
“Actress best known as playing Howard Stern’s wife in Private Parts.” You could have stopped right there and it would have been a great post. I was already laughing!
Lithium-ion batteries using the oxide chemistry have their own oxygen built right into the cells. They do not need air to combust. Like RADIONATIONMAN said, once they start you cannot extinguish them.
“Lithium-ion batteries using the oxide chemistry have their own oxygen built right into the cells.”
Exactly, the fuel cell community dropped that like a hot rock 8 years ago.
wanna know something funny? … Firefighters use foam to suppress gasoline fires in vehicles … guess what? … it doesn’t work w/ ethanol …. or electric batteries in electric, or hybrid cars!
Weeeeeeeeeeee! ………………. Car-b-que!
Anon @ 10:29
IMDB has her down as close friends with Chelsea Handler. That, plus Prius was enough to lose concern.
Used Prius for sale!
Low mileage with some discoloration on the paint job and could use some new tires.
Great heater if you live in the northern part of the US!
$100,000+ to drive a hot car.
Cremation costs are included in the price… sweeet! 🙂
You’re subsidizing these rolling firetraps, peeps.
L-ion powered cars…no thank. Lead acid like a golf cart…no problem. I even took a spin on a ZAMBONI a few times.
@Bad_Brad June 16, 2018 at 10:39 pm
So that’s why my stock in a lithium mine has tanked so bad.
Every time I invest in a mine, I get shafted.
Nice picture. Not the Tesla on fire. Her, she’s pretty.
It’s important to know what to do when you see this happen! Call your broker and short Tesla!
@Uncle Al –
“Engineers have had over a hundred years to make hydrocarbon fuel tanks and systems safer, and it takes quite an effort to get them to fail.”
I’m still perturbed by the exploding Flt. 800. Almost every automobile on the freeway nowadays has an electric fuel pump in the tank, drowning in gasoline. When is the last time we heard of a car getting ‘sploded because of bad insulation?
Open Boarders Greenie, and I found this retweet on her Twitter account:
“The Circle is Complete: Trump openly demands he be loved & respected like a North Korean Dictator … or else. He is delusional & Democracy is in danger.”
https://twitter.com/malcolmnance/status/1007616650940768257?s=21
Think about how dangerous these electric vehicles are for first responders.
who knew, those teslas have a built in flame thrower and are as disposable as a bic lighter when empty. 😀
My Empathetic Meter is registering 0 for the plight of Mary’s husband’s $100k tax payer subsidized vehicle. That she’s an avowed Trump hater may have swayed my opinion.
I wonder if King Angus will get rid of his?
Marshmallows not included.
A Willie Peter auto, brilliant!
Insurance companies are the great equalizer with dangerous products. At some point the math of the ultimate costs related to owning one, read life, health and property may make it un-affordable for even the Hollywood communists.
Any road subject to a huge blow torch like that is damaged goods. Add to the bill anything that’s within so many feet of a burning one.
Al: It’s pretty darn hard to improve on the internal combustion engine for reliability, efficiency and scalability. They keep trying, but I haven’t seen it yet.
My wandering thought on this subject: If water-based power systems are possible and so easy to make in a home shop, splitting the molecules, etc., why doesn’t a home inventor just make one and prove it by using it every day? At least he could detach from the petrol industry cheaply for himself.
I’m guessing that’s not covered by the warranty?
Best Anti-theft device on the Market…
Organgrinder ,Willy Pete was My first thought also .
If Musk’s boring choo choo utilizes the same superterrific technology, imagine a mega-fireball hurtling down the underground tube and overtaking the 125 MPH cars !
Whoo hoo! XL Napalm Mentos cannon!!!
Electric cars have been around 100 years and they still suck. if I can’t take a road trip what good is it .
Elon Muck is the biggest scam artist in American business. Tesla has NEVER show a profit and the stock market just loves this guy why?
Figures: Musk enriches himself by taking taxpayer money and then builds a crappy vehicle and then thinks the government should control everything and everyone…..
http://www.breitbart.com/california/2018/06/17/elon-musk-i-am-a-socialist/