Hacker News

points by fourseventy 1 day ago | 0 comments

Is there an article every time a Mack Truck catches on fire?

There is every time the fire shuts down the 880 for ten hours.

As the article points out, the fleet size of Tesla Semis is very small. And as this is the 2nd Tesla semi fire, this represents a much larger share of these trucks, than any single Mack Truck fire. If Mack trucks caught fire at these rates it may well make the news.

[–] rsynnott 1 day ago

This would be roughly equivalent to 5,000 of them catching fire at once, scaled for the number which exist, so, yeah, might draw some comment.

[–] rsynnott 1 day ago

This is the second one of these to have blown up. It looks like about 200 exist. It is _notable_ that 1% of the entire installed base has caught fire.

[–] phyzome 1 day ago

New technology bears additional focus.

[–] reaperducer 1 day ago

Is there an article every time a Mack Truck catches on fire?

Yes, if you watch the local traffic reports. Absolutely. Why do you ask? Are you trying to imply something?

[–] dpkirchner 1 day ago

Yeah.