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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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
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.
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
But the glass roof would pop the airbags, reducing their effectiveness.
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.
For some reason, I didn't realize that airbags became a requirement. I always use my seatbelt and think I'd prefer not to have an airbag go off in my face, making it even harder to maintain control in the event of an accident.
Don’t worry; if a crash is severe enough that your airbags go off, odds are your vehicle won’t be going very far anyways.
People would fly down the highway, kids in the car, nobody in seatbelts. That was normal until the 90s.
Seatbelts at least existed, even if no one used them. I once rode I think it was a late 60’s car, maybe early 70s, with lap belts for front only. No shoulder belts. Nothing for back seat
Yup, available but nobody used until it was required by law.