If lightening strikes your car, will you get electrocuted?

Question

If lightening strikes your car, will you get electrocuted?

Answer 1

What if the window's open, will that make a difference?

Answer 2

...it is said tat the safest place to be in during a lightning storm is in a car.....

Answer 3

Not if you are in it. If you are outside it's anybodies guess. The big danger from lightening is it running to earth through your spine, I heard an expert say that if you are caught outside in a real open area, the safest position to assume is on all fours, with your *** in the air, then if you get hit, the current runs down your legs.

Answer 4

no.

it has nothing to do with the rubber tires.

the fact that you are surronded by the metal exterior diverts the charge around you and your occupants.

as long as you do not touch any metal you are fine.

in fact, there are special metal cages known as faraday cages that you can stand in while being in a room emiting high electrical chrages that imitate lighting and you will not be struck

your car is ultimately the faraday cage.

Answer 5

No, a car is a very safe place to be during a thunderstorm.

Answer 6

No, because the rubber tires don't provide a path to ground.  Rubber is an insulator.  If you were parked, however, and had your foot on the ground outside the car and were sitting in it while it got struck, you would probably meet your maker, but then again, you might have rubber soles on your shoes, too.

Answer 7

Rubber tires can't conduct electricity, so no.

Answer 8

Sedimenjerry is exactly right. The lighting will flow around the outside of the car along the metal and through the tires to ground. So yea, touch nothing metal while in it. You'll get some of the charge directed into you. Rubber protecting you from lightning is a myth. You would have to have rubber tires nearing a mile in thickness to protect you from the charge of a lighting bolt, it's that powerful. So don't count on rubber guys