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When there’s actually dangerous stuff under the hood, maybe we should worry about it though. If piercing a cell with a screwdriver is going to cause a fire, and a runaway chain reaction could burn down your garage, maybe we should have a way to give mandatory training on how to handle things safely before you’re allowed to play under the hood.

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Why is the cost greater than the benefit?

Because humans are bad at statistics, and don’t want to waste money on hypotheticals. “It’ll never happen to me.” So you can skimp on the cost of safety training.

'under the hood' is relative...

Most vehicles are Skateboard platform anyway; I feel like you'd already have to be in at least a semi-specialized shop to even get to where you can safely FAFO with the pack...

And frankly if a normal person manages to just 'get one' and put it in their garage well I don't know what to say aside from 'sometimes natural selection has factors'...

I’d rather we be able to teach people so they’re safe when they experience the FO part of thermal runaway. Hey, I really needed that bucket of sand.

But I don’t control what other people are doing, so, like you said, natural selection. The problem comes when that garage is adjacent to the neighbors garage, and it catches from there, that we do need to control what other people are doing.

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