Video keeps showing up on [TikTok ](http://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8vYsWq1/) of a Tesla driving partially submerged.
Why isn’t this a story of hairdryer meets bathtub and that dude in the back isn’t toast?
In: Engineering
For one, batteries use direct current and your wall socket uses alternating current. Those behave very differently.
Second, the toaster to bathtub ratio is much larger than the Tesla to Creek ratio.
Third, the Tesla is grounded by being in a pool on the dirt. So even if there was escaping electricity, it would go directly into the ground rather than go up through there person in the car.
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