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.
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
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.
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.
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.
I bet that would be fun in a rollover.
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.
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.
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 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.
