[maratd]

> There is also the possible issue of rapid exit when electrics are dead.

This is not an issue with Tesla design, all of that is handled by a traditional car battery that every car has, not the main battery. Those batteries are completely separate and in different parts of the car, I think specifically because of this safety issue.

[Doxin]

If anything teslas are safer in this department because of the temperature sensors in the battery pack. There's several stories out there of battery fires in teslas where the fire only occurred after the car warned the driver, and after all the participants got out.

On the other hand you're unlikely to notice a fire in a gasoline car before there's smoke or fire.