Rode in a car with a full tinted glass roof once. Everybody's brains were boiling.
Looking at that picture, all I see is sunburn, heatstroke, and headache.
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It’s very tinted. No worries about the sun. I suppose there must still be at least some greenhouse effect but from living in the Northeast, I’ve never noticed any heat from the sun through the roof.
Compared to my Subaru’s sun roof, which has dark tinting but lets in a lot of heat, the Tesla glass roof tinting is much darker and doesn’t
It may also help the perception of heat that I usually have cabin overheat protection turned on. After my car has been parked out in the hot sun, even if I forget to turn on climate control ahead of time, the cabin is never over 100° when I get in, and cools quickly
We could probably make it work with the newer ceramic tint. It's meant to be much better than regular. I definitely feel a difference in my car now that it's ceramic tinted.
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Not only Teslas, it's an industry wide trend, specially for EVs, but combustion card also have it.
Heavy tint, optionally a shade and A/C. It's pretty comfortable even in full July sun.
Get hot, enjoy extra cancer in the future maybe?
My car has an acrylic roof and never had an issue other than it gets hot in there. I put ceramic tint on all the windows this year and a cover for the top, helps so much when it's 100+ outside with no clouds anywhere!
Pretty sure you can't get a sunburn through glass. Cancer, yes, but not a sunburn.
https://www.sciencefocus.com/science/can-i-get-sunburnt-through-glass
Some, but not all glass has a coating that blocks ultraviolet and infrared wavelengths. The technology was introduced in the 1980's.
Your link disagrees with you. Hoping nobody pays attention? Hoping for up votes?
False fact post, bad faith actor, or llm. All 3?
From your link: "You can still get burned with long enough exposure."
Lazy me, best I can find is with typical automotive glass a sunburn starts in several hours versus about 15 minutes with no sunscreen.
So for the most part no. But it's possible.
The lazy part was your statement being at odds with your source, while discounting other folk's experience or skin.
I know of more than one person who has experienced sunburn from closed windowed (newer)vehicle rides in full sunlight.
Depends on the glass. Normal glass has zero UV protection. In cars the front window usually has it, while the side windows don't. Although I read that years ago, no idea what the current status is.
It depends on the type of glass. "Normal" glass blocks UVB, which is the major cause of cancer from sunlight. I don't know what type of glass they were using in 40's era cars though.
Funny you should mention that. The dapper gentleman in the front passenger seat was my grandfather. Back in the 40s, buying a new car was a very big deal, so he brought his friend from work and each of their mistresses. My grandmother didn't find out about her until about a year later after all four of them had developed melanoma and naw I'm just fuckin' with ya I dunno who they are.
They typically have roll over protections in the seat and windshield to save the people inside.
This doesn’t.
Yeah modern cars do. Back then though, they didn't even have seat belts. The glass roof, was the least of their problems if they crashed
Can't tell if you think old cars had airbags or if I'm interpreting your comment incorrectly.
From my own memory, air bags didn't really become a common thing until the late 90s. A lot of my cars from the 90s didn't have airbags at all.
Airbags were first patented in 1952. They couldn't even become common place until the patent expired.
Airbags were introduced in the 60's as an option, no one wanted the extra expense.
It took regulation to make airbags commonplace, not really much to do with patents, more to do with airbag manufacturers, auto manufacturers and insurance underwriters working together to lobby for the regulation...since it benefitted them.
Not that I'm against airbags in cars - this is just how it came about - vested interests.
Modern ones do. In this era they didn't, the windshield just folded flat and there was usually nothing in the back as well.
True, but they didn't offer much of a shielding from the impact with their short, weak necks.
Hell, even today manufacturers will have warnings that the rollover bars aren't for passenger protection.
Crazy stuff.
Interesting. I think maybe try aren't sufficient for professional use as a race-car, but protect sufficiently according to crash standards.
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Current nRollover standards allow metal roofs to deform 6”. As a taller person, that is a nightmare, so I’ll take the roof that doesn’t deform and crush my skull
For modern cars like Tesla All the strength is in the pillars. The glass roof is for stiffness and to keep the weather out.
Which is why these things never go into production. If you follow concept cars, you'll see this sort of glass roof idea pop up all the time. Nobody will ever make one because it's functionally a solar oven.
One exception that did make it to production is the Peel Trident. It's still an oven, though.
1930 – The “car cooler” uses the evaporation of water (rather than your own sweat) to cool air, which is then blown in through the open passenger-side window. Though it’s the first item to actually lower the air temperature, it only works in areas with very low humidity – and it looks like you have a vacuum cleaner strapped to the side of your car.
ok guys.. Option "A" is castration. I don't care how elaborate option "B" is, but we're going with that!
65° on a clear day would be bad enough.
I've had cars with a sunroof, and on clear days it could be hot as hell even at lower temps.
Detroit car execs from the 1940s. Ribeye and six-martini lunches every day. Drunk and reckless driving galore, above-the-law behavior six days a week. Mindless corporate crony bores with no inner life. I have no reason to believe Mad Men was lying about any of that stuff.
Maybe a little exaggerated.
I'm sure it happened, just probably not as constantly as portrayed.
Perhaps only 4 days a week.
Anybody have any stats on how many people were decapitated by these before we stopped making them?
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Can you imagine how quickly acrylic or plexiglass Am would haze over from erosion as you drive, and how it’d yellow in the sun after a few years (did they have UV blocking additives back then?). You be replacing the clear parts every year or two
Pose for an iconic picture that will be remembered for decades.
Park like an asshole for no reason.
People would fly down the highway, kids in the car, nobody in seatbelts. That was normal until the 90s.