Rescuers prep for hybrid car accident
The growing popularity of hybrid vehicles poses a new danger for rescuers at accident scenes: a network of high-voltage circuitry that may require some precise cutting to save a trapped victim.
It's mainly about cutting into doors to get someone out of a car, but it's still good to note. Use rubber gloves and boots, and disconnect the battery, if you can. And cut into the roof.
Courtesy of Slashdot.
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It's also pretty much just FUD, as many of the /. responses point out.
The cars are designed to cut off electrical flow when the airbags engage, and even if they do not, any wires carrying an unusual voltage (i.e., more than would already be in any car with power doors, windows, etc.) are in issolated places and wrapped in bright colors, much like fuel lines are treated already.
But it's always fun to see pro-active FUD just as hybrids are starting to widen in number... apparently someone is worried about their market share.
Posted by Ghoul | May 5, 2004 9:22 AM
Posted on May 5, 2004 09:22