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.
dont a bunch of teslas have full glass roofs? what do they do?
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
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.
I bet that would be fun in a rollover.
Not much worse than a cabriolet or convertible i guess
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
Modern ones do. In this era they didn't, the windshield just folded flat and there was usually nothing in the back as well.
head removal machine.
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.
trying to imagine what that would be like during 110°F weather …
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.
Did cars even have air conditioning back then?
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.
They were pretty innovative back then!
Nothing speeds innovation like having one’s balls stuck to one’s leg.
ok guys.. Option "A" is castration. I don't care how elaborate option "B" is, but we're going with that!
They existed, but it took until the 1960s to become common in upper class models.
Its like a covered cooking pot. Can't imagine how hot it would be in there
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.
don’t forget every space being constantly flooded with cigarette smoke
Wow! I can't see any way that that could possibly go wrong!
But when it does go wrong, you will see it.
Reminds me of the AMC Pacer my family had. Everyone compared it to a fish bowl
Anybody have any stats on how many people were decapitated by these before we stopped making them?
I wonder if it's more or less than how many people were baked inside them.
Did they have tempered glass back then?
Was it really glass, or perspex or something?
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
Way cool, daddio!
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