Should I stop and get off immediately or continue driving when I encounter lightning weather while driving?

Summer is coming, ray. We often encounter thunderstorms. Lightning is very terrible. Usually we avoid going out in thunderous weather, but if we drive outside, is it really safe in the car?

In fact, thunderstorm weather is divided into two layers, one is thunder, and it is relatively safer to thunder in the car. But if it rains too hard and turns into a rainstorm, you should be careful not to be flooded.

Why is Thunder safe in the car? It's about Faraday. This is a great man in electromagnetism. 1836, Faraday built a house, not an ordinary house. Because this stall is called metal foil, but it can isolate electricity inside. This is the famous "faraday cage". The metal foil outside the house protects the house like a deaf person, and the house is an independent individual space, which is not affected by electricity.

The same is true of cars. A car is a metal object, but its closed form makes it a "faraday cage". The outside of the car is metal, but the inside is isolated. The wet tire on the outside becomes the key part of communication and conduction between the car body and the ground. Even if the car is struck by lightning, the current can be conducted to the ground through the body shell and tires, which will not cause harm to the people inside the car.

Of course, if you encounter a thunderstorm while driving outside, you must pay attention to the doors and windows and never stick your head or limbs out of the window. At the same time, it is best to turn off some electronic equipment in the car, because the same electronic equipment has current flowing through it, which is easy to be damaged when it encounters lightning.

So cars are not afraid of lightning, not because they are cars, but because they are faraday cage.