Don't Drive Your Boxster In a Lightning Storm

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Originally Posted by Lil bastard

So long as you're not touching any metal directly, your odds of being struck by lightning is only slightly shorter than if you were in an enclosed sedan.

Add to this that the car is lower than many other possible conductors, such as powerlines, sign posts, buildings, trees and such, this lowers the odds even further.

Got any data to back this up? Since you were wrong on the lighting strike capital, I'm worried this reasoning might make you a future candidate for a Darwin award

I couldn't find any examples of someone in a convertible suffering a lightning strike, but this guy caught in rush hour traffic on a motorcycle was struck and killed recently:

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/9407981/detail.html