A significant amount of Detroiters do not have car insurance. A local news agency reported Detroit had the highest car insurance rates in the entire COUNTRY in 2024.
In most states you are only legally required to have insurance that covers other cars and drivers you hit in an accident. Coverage for damage to your own car is optional/an extra cost.
I feel like if they DID have insurance and were able to file a claim, it wouldn't be enough money to buy a replacement car of the same condition. Cars are so often worth more as cars than they are as money.
Detroit has some of the highest insurance premiums in the country which leads to a high number of uninsured motorists. It's a self feeding cycle. Also we have no fault insurance in Michigan which already drives costs up higher than most other states.
Am I being dumb? But doesn’t ice take up less space, with the molecules moving slower? And hot things generally expand (faster molecules). But I do remember reading somewhere there was a rule that meant ice and a few other things actually expanded as it got colder.
Most liquids contract when they freeze due to the molecules coming closer together when they lose the energy to be a liquid. However water forms a mostly unique crystalline structure that causes it to expand when frozen due to that layout/structure.
Okay I feel dumb. First of all, how the hell are there people inside these cars? Did the water freeze while they were driving so they just got stuck there? And second, if the vehicles are being crushed from both inside and outside, the people inside would be fucked, no? I’m so lost
Absolutely not, water will expand in the direction of least resistance. That’s going to be upwards, against atmospheric pressure, not trying to crush the sides of a car lol.
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u/IamMisa Feb 18 '25
Yes, it very much would. From the in- and outside. Those cars are finished.