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Question: Science
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is it safe to be in a car when there's lightning?
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Answers
| The electrical current pases through the car body easier than through a human, so most of it bypasses your body, and you are grounded by the rubber (insulating) tyres. So, yes it is safer.
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| Typically, lightning rarely hit vehicles with rubber tires due to the insulating quality of rubber. In that rare event that lightning hits a car, a human inside the car is further insulated by a number of materials lining the interior of the car, hence even separating any static charge from jumping to him/her. So, yes, it is quite safe to be in a car during a lightning storm. So much so that it would be recommended to remain in the car should you get stuck in a storm.
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