Are you safe in a car during a lightning storm?

Are you safe in a car during a lightning storm?
As surprising as it may seem but you would actually be safe insidea car if you were caught in a lighting storm.

In the open, humans can be electrocuted in a lighting storm ashumans can conduct electricity. However, if you compare theconductivity of a metal car and a human body then a car would be abetter conductor of electricity.

You may ask "but would you be electrocuted as well if you were in acar whilst it was electrocuted" The answer to that is simply no. Toexplain we must understand how electricity is transferred when itis released in a lighting storm. When electricity is releasedinside a thunder cloud, all electricity finds the quickest route toground. So if a lighting bolt struck a human body and a carsimultaneously than the lighting would hit the ground quicker if ithit the car as it is a better conductor of electricity of a car.Also, in a car, you are sat on a leather seat with other non metalobjects and they act like insulating materials, which don't conductelectricity.

To sum it up simply, you can die if you were directly struck bylighting but a car to some degree would stay intake if that wasstruck by lighting. If you were sat inside a car and it was struckby lighting, the lighting would go the the tallest part of the car,which it could be the Ariel, then the electricity itself wouldtravel around the metal car frame to the brakes, where it's incontact with the tyre and that it contacted to the ground. Reasonthat you wont be conducted is due to a few reasons but the main oneis that a human body isn't as good as at conducting electricitycompare to a huge metal car.

This explains in some videos and cases where people inside a cargets hit by lightning but they don't get harmed what do ever withthe exception of damages like shattered glass, and the car tyresexploded. This is also why people are advised that if they were ina car and was caught for some reason in a lighting storm, then youshould stay in the car instead of going outside the car.