is it is safe to sit inside a car during lightining,if why?

Answer 1

The first and third answers here are wrong, though that is the answer most people give.

Rememeber, lighting that strikes a car has alread traveled thousands of feet through the air, it will have no problem jumping the extra foot or so from the bottom of your car to the ground, regardless of your rubber tires.

The second answer is correct, the metal framework of the car will conduct the electricity around you, assuming your are not touching the metal framework while inside the car, which would be difficult to do given how interiors of cars are made.

Answer 2

Yes it is safe to sit inside a car during lightining as the rubber from which tyres are made is bad conducter of electricity which stoppes the lightining transffering into the earth and providing the insulation.

Answer 3

Yes it is safe to sit inside a car during lightning, because the vehicle body will take the current as it is made of metal and discharge it and neutralize. However the passengers will be on cushion and will be protected from the possible shock.

In the event of them elighting from the car, there is a possibility that they may be directly hit by the lightning in the open air as there is no other earthing material available.

Answer 4

It is safe to sit inside a car during lighting. Because the the electric field inside the hollow body is always is zero. So that the body of the car act as a electrostatic shielding. So electric field inside the car is zero. Because of this it is safe sit inside the car than standing under the tree.

Answer 5

Yes,It is quite safe to sit inside the car because
body of the car conducts electrical charge to the earth through the air because the electricity potential is so high that tyres can not stop it,it will jump to earth through the air as it has come from thunderbolt to the car.

Answer 6

Yes, it is absolutely safe. Acc. to studies during lightining electricity is attracted towards a acceptor which is highest and should conduct all the charge to earth. As car have non conducting tyres lightening does not feel any attraction towards it so anyone inside it is quitely safe.

Answer 7

Yes,it's one of the safest place during lightining,
if a thunderbolt hits a car it's get grounded through the body
via tyre,if n only if all the window glasses r closed.

N also if u r not with a women
or u should have protection"C****m"

Answer 8

The potential induced by the charged clouds in the car body discharges into the earth and anybody sitting inside the car will be perfectly safe.

Answer 9

yes,its completely safe inside a car.the car actually acts as a conductor,when the lightening strikes,the electricity runs through the metallic body of the car down the rubber tyres into the earth(which has infinite potential).no harm is done to the inside

Answer 10

It is very safe to sit inside a car during lightning. Because the car stands on tyres which are non conductors of electric current.When the power reaches the car,it gets electrocuted but the current is not transmitted to earth.
It is not safe to exit an electrocuted car by touching its body.The moment when we exit the car by holding the car and put our legs on earth, the power gets transmitted to earth through our body and we will get a shock.We should exit the electrocuted car by jumping with both legs up from the car.