Ford with glass roof, 1947.
Ford with glass roof, 1947.
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I bet that would be fun in a rollover.
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head removal machine.
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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.
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trying to imagine what that would be like during 110°F weather …
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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.
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Did cars even have air conditioning back then?
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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.
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They existed, but it took until the 1960s to become common in upper class models.
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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.
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Its like a covered cooking pot. Can't imagine how hot it would be in there
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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.
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don’t forget every space being constantly flooded with cigarette smoke
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Maybe a little exaggerated.
I'm sure it happened, just probably not as constantly as portrayed.
Perhaps only 4 days a week.
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Reminds me of the AMC Pacer my family had. Everyone compared it to a fish bowl
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Wow! I can't see any way that that could possibly go wrong!
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But when it does go wrong, you will see it.
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How come?
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Anybody have any stats on how many people were decapitated by these before we stopped making them?
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I wonder if it's more or less than how many people were baked inside them.
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Did they have tempered glass back then?
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Was it really glass, or perspex or something?
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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
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Way cool, daddio!
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People would fly down the highway, kids in the car, nobody in seatbelts. That was normal until the 90s.
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Seatbelts at least existed. I once ride I think it wa late 60’s car, maybe early 70s, with lap belts for front only. No shoulder belts. Nothing for back seat
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Yup, available but nobody used until it was required by law.
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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.
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."
Never heard of lighting a fire with a magnifying glass?
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.