[brewdad]

It doesn't have to be intentional. It does generally has to be foreseeable. If I throw acid out my front door onto the sidewalk without looking and some passerby happens to pass through the stream, I should be held responsible for my recklessness even if I didn't intend it.

Bose engineers surely understand the risks inherent in their batteries.

[dataflow]

Sure but do you see any signs of recklessness in this case? Your comment kind of assumes that (or worse), whereas it's far from obvious to me.

[romwell]

Well that would be up to the courts to decide.

Depends on whether Bose engineers were unaware of risks of lithium batteries to the extent that they didn't put any warnings on the product, safe from a recommendation to "remove" the headphones if the user experiences a "warming sensation".

Could it be the case that Bose thought that "warming sensation" is the worst that could happen? Let's see what the comments here say!

>In the end you're carrying a high energy density power source on your head that would love to just catch fire. Don't they teach kids anything in chemistry these days?

>I mean I’m glad it didn’t happen to me, but a billion people are carrying around billions of Lithium-ion batteries. Those batteries sometimes catch fire because Lithium is highly flammable. It’s gonna happen.

>Nothing is perfectly safe, that is how lithium batteries fail. You should know so you can properly deal with problems.

>Well, at lease EVs are spontaneously catching fire.

>Everyone is aware of the risks, there were a bunch of stories about airplane cell phone fires a few years ago.

>lithium battery fires are really nasty, and that's why he got a chemical burn. LiPF6 is a contact irritant, PF5 it decomposes to is a gas, and also a respiratory irritant, and HF PH5 decomposes in the air is a dangerous poisonous acid. This is what everybody visiting a lithium battery factory is told on safety orientation. In case there is fire in the factory, run, preferably until you are few blocks away.

I don't even know what to think. I guess they just didn't know.