Yes. Think of the lighting hitting the ground as the bullseye of a target. Your feet/legs are connecting two different rings/numbers. Cows, horses, etc have a longer distance between their legs and multiple are often simultaneously killed. Your rubber soles aren't enough insulation.
My cousin was struck by lightning in his truck at a stoplight. Had his window down with his arm on the door. Wasn't too serious, but he did get struck.
Yes, IF a live line is laying on your car, the safest place for you is still inside the car. BUT, if the tires were to go flat or blow from damage, you no longer have that insulating factor as much. You can look up many unfortunate real-life examples, where a person tried to get out of their car and walk away, and is killed by shock immediately. As long as that powerlines is laying on the ground as well, you are dealing with power dissipating into the ground creating a ring of Step potential hazards.. Powerline systems have many safety devices built into them, such as fuses, reclosers and substation fault detection that look for an imbalance and shut the line down immediately. But I have seen a 3 phase line buried 50ft deep in an avalanche, with the pole entirely broken and snapped off and carried across a river, where the line was still fully active, because the snow is an insulating factor and the line never broke, so the protective devices that are much further away, never saw enough of an imbalance to kick in. That one was an interesting one to fix, took us all night and then some to come out with a solution to get through the winter
I always throw breakers/disconnects with my right hand and left foot off the ground.
I’ve got some “glass holes” that my dad has brought home over the years.
You're safe because you aren't touching the vehicle and the ground at the same time. Electricity will flow through the rubber tires to ground and they can and will blow out and or catch on fire unless a breaker or fuse operates.
I think cars are safe due to electrical shielding, the electric field inside a conductor will remain zero. This might not be correct, but I heard that on average commercial airliner get struck by lightning once a year without ill effects to the plane or passengers.
Tires don't insulate a car, they ground it. They must ground it because the electrical potential that would build up on the car just driving down the road with insulating tires would be in the millions of volts. Your radio wouldn't work. You'd probably start a fire every single time you went to put fuel in it. People would be getting shocked left and right. You'd drive next to a metal pole and a 4ft static shock would hit it and anyone between.
You are correct - Faraday cage. Many useful applications and sometimes annoying scenarios like no cell service(EM waves) in a giant metal building
