Thomas wrote about how the China Automobile Collision Repair & Technology Research Center has a test vehicle capable of firing a battery pack out of an EV at a surprisingly high speed. Presumably, this means that, instead of your EV burning down, your flaming battery pack could be ejected and become someone else’s problem? Bags:
Pedestrian wounded, driver charged with battery
StillNotATony had the same idea I did:
Slartibartfast would call this making the battery an SEP.
Somebody else’s problem, for those of you who aren’t familiar with The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy series.
Lockleaf:
I imagine some unsupervised engineers thought “lets see what happens if” and then we ended up here. Its freaking hilarious, and a TERRIBLE idea, all at the same time.
Bags is back for a second nomination:
“see, the problem is that people can get trapped in the burning car and die”
Engineer A “what if we just made door handles that worked?”
Supervisor “hmmmm, ok, interesting. Anyone else? No such thing as a bad idea”
Engineer B “what if we yeeted the battery pack 15 feet from the car if it catches fire”
Supervisor “…..brilliant”
Pru L:
Single-use Molotov battery! It will disable your getaway vehicle, of course, but everyone will be too busy trying to get away from the pallet of fire coming at then to pay attention to you. Perfect for wanna-be arsonists!
ChefCJ:
The designer, Q, would like you to return the batteries in one piece this time.
Arch Duke Maxyenko:
If only the car yelled out “HAMMOND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” every time it ejected the battery.
Finally, Jason wrote a Cold Start about the least appetizing picnic in a car brochure. Kleinlowe:
If you showed me the first ‘picnic’ out of context – the apple placed next to the pinecone, the cut glass servingware stalking the tall grass, the cake which appears to be in a seperate plane, the mystery piss bottles with non-euclidian mouths and distended corks, the chicken or maybe fried Weimaraner head – I would swear to you it was AI slop.
Have a great evening, everyone!
(Top graphic: China Automobile Collision Repair & Technology Research Center)
Oh nice, my first COTD. And it’s about mystery piss bottles. Ah well, they say you should write what you know.
I get why you said that. The way colors were presented in those days, it’s like taking acid, putting on 3D glasses, and watching Gilmore Girls.
As a Weimaraner dog grandpa – I cannot unsee that lol
TFW you make COTD but there was a typo that you didn’t notice until just now. How embarrassing, lol
I didn’t notice it either! I’ll do a dirty edit. 😉
What if the car was rolled onto its left side?
“Oh no the battery is on fire, better eject it”
Battery shoots into the air. Falls back onto the car.
Or the other way around? Would launching the battery instead launch the car into the air? That could be fun!
Just eject it at moment of rapture, you dont want to set heaven on fire
I believe this is called an SRM: