A physics teacher and his family are travelling in a car on a highway during a severe lightning storm. Choose the correct option.

The safest place is inside the car because charges due to lightning tend to remain on the metal body or skin of the vehicle if struck by lightning.

It is dangerous to be inside the car because charges accumulate on the surface and generate a strong electric field inside.

The safest place is under a tree because the wet tree provides a path to earth.

It is safer to exit the car and stand on open ground.