why can combustion cars stop working after driving through flood waters but be okay in heavy rainfall?

Question

I’ve recently seen on tiktok lots of footage of nice cars driving through flood water, usually they accelerate into it and there’s a surge of water back onto the bonnet but at first thought this seems like the same thing that happens when it rains

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Answer 1

Literally same way you can drown in water, yet don’t drown in the rain. It’s a 1 to 1 exact analogy. The engine doesn’t fill up with rain water when taking in air the same way your lungs don’t when your face is lashed with rain.

But submerge either, and it definitely will.