| ▲ | radiorental 4 hours ago |
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| ▲ | jader201 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| > Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html |
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| ▲ | ge96 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Yeah was a joke as I think most cars if you drive through that your car is f'd |
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| ▲ | _heimdall 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Ironically, a properly sealed EV system would better deal with a flood. Combustion engines have issues due mostly to the air intake and exhaust. |
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| ▲ | masklinn 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | You'd need to ensure every electrical connection is in a waterproof location which I'm pretty sure is not a thing for any standard car manufacturing. Cabins are also rarely watertight. AFAIK your best bet is a diesel with a snorkel, and hope things have dried off before you need to restart the engine. | | | |
| ▲ | gruez 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Are EVs typically "sealed" by default? If not, how is going through the effort to "seal" an EV different than installing snorkels for ICE cars? | | |
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| ▲ | b40d-48b2-979e 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Their account is about as old as yours. |
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| ▲ | radiorental 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | More a comment on how HN has devolved in the past 2 years, if I want snark, this isn't the place I go to find it. | | |
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| ▲ | alex1138 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| People are allowed to joke. We don't always need 'substantive comments' |
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| ▲ | radiorental 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | It's not a joke if it doesn't make any sense, what good is a snorkle on an electric car? | | |
| ▲ | Rooster61 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | That's...the joke. The humor is in the absurdity of recommending an addon to the car that utterly would not work and would look ridiculous. It's layered on the fact that Jeep snorkels look sort of ridiculous even on the vehicles they were designed for. |
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