Overall I don’t think the risk is higher for the occupants, you’re still a lot more likely to experience a gasoline fire if you crash one of those, or just at random.
But if you have a crash which punctures the gas tank, in the very worst possible scenario, it will be burning under the rear passenger seat, which will be made of materials that are flame retardant very effectively against gas fires (but not LiON bombs). Probably the fire will be happening in gas which has dripped onto the ground, so it won't be anywhere near direct contact.
In a normal human car, even if the passengers are in the rear passenger seat, they can just:
- open the door from the inside
- jump out (possibly getting lightly singed)
Or, they can crawl through the front and open the door and be completely unharmed.
In a Tesla, the flames are going to be coming through every door entrance, many of which you may not be able to open in time, and then through the floor/seats.
To blame this purely on a race is disingenuous and masking the issue.
Maybe, but have you heard of the concept of the iron ring ceremony, pioneered in Canada, and based on Kipling's 'Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer
'?
Basically every Anglosphere country has adopted something similar (often with stainless steel because iron sux lol), as a pseudo-spiritual ritual for graduate engineers to make a commitment that they will always bake in a safety factor and try to make sure that people walking across their bridge don't fall down and drown because they were pushed to cut costs by their bosses.
This is a VERY GOOD thing, because it means that even the most atheistic, profit-focused engineer still feels an obligation to not be proven to be bad at estimating failures, because even if he still came out ahead monetarily, it would make him look like a loser bitch and a lesser engineer than his fellows who might have built less impressive structures- but whose structures didn't fall down. See, for example, the late, legendary, William LeMessurier, and his intervention to correct the Citicorp Center, despite the fact that it might well have stood up just fine at least until his death this century but would have made him look bad afterwards if it had fallen down.
India will adopt similar English customs all day... but a commitment to being competent, decent, and safe? FUCK NO. The equivalent for an Indian engineer is when they cause their first mass casualty event and shrug because the victims were probably dalits.
