If you sit in a car in a thunderstorm, will you be struck by lightning?

In summer and autumn, especially in the southern coastal areas, typhoons and rainstorms are frequent, which also have a great impact on people's daily driving, especially in thunderstorm weather, lightning and thunder. Not to mention driving on the road, it is a little scary to sit at home and hear rolling thunder (Thor Sol is really scary when he gets angry).

In some places, people are often struck by lightning (love rat may swear), and there are so many cars and metal objects on the road. If it is in a thunderstorm, the probability of being struck by lightning is also great.

A female driver in Russia normally drives an SUV on the road. It's raining heavily locally. On the way, suddenly a flash of lightning flashed across the sky and landed on the SUV body driven by a female driver. Others on the road can't help worrying about the female driver in this SUV.

However, there was nothing unusual about seeing the SUV struck by lightning. It was normal on the road, and everyone's hanging hearts were put down. Afterwards, it was proved that the passengers in the car were not injured by lightning. Many people are curious about this. Why was this SUV hit by such a big lightning? Not only is the vehicle undamaged, but the passengers inside are also safe?

This involves knowledge of physics. Faraday, a famous physicist, once found in experiments that even if there is an electric shock in a metal house, there will be no more charge. This phenomenon is my "faraday cage" theory in physics. When there is current touching the metal house, the metal house is grounded, and the current will flow into the ground, so there will be no current passing through the house, and the people inside the house will not be affected by Shanghai.

A moving car is like a moving metal house. Even if struck by lightning, current will pass through the car body to show that metal and rain-soaked tires will lead current to the ground. According to the "faraday cage" principle, there will be no current in the car, and the charge will be zero, which will not cause harm to people.

However, it should be noted that although the car will not be damaged by lightning because of the principle of "faraday cage", there are certain conditions, that is, the rules of "faraday cage" cannot be broken. Similarly, if you drive in rainy days, you just need to do these things and hide in the car.

The first thing is to close the window to avoid exposing the limbs outside the car. At this time, if you are unlucky and thunder and lightning, it will be very dangerous to directly hit the bare limbs outside the car. Secondly, don't touch the metal objects connected with the car body, because if the car body is struck by lightning, the current will be directly transmitted to the human body through the car body, causing harm.

Finally, try not to open the door frequently and get on and off in the open air on rainy days. At this time, if lightning strikes the car body, it will form a step voltage, which is very dangerous. Of course, in thunderstorm and typhoon weather, it is best to find a place to shelter from the rain, and wait until the rain stops to avoid the branches collapsing and hitting the car. This is the safest. It's safe to hide in the car when driving in rainy days.