Rant: Clueless Populace

We love you too Sage.

 

100 in the shade and no shade? I would have left the car in Ready, windows closed, screen OFF, Park. Lock the doors with the mechanical key.

I remember back when the Highway Patrol first got air conditioning in their cars. Some people thought air conditioning was too much of a luxury to provide every policeman with it. On the other hand, the thought of dealing with a policeman who just got out of his oven temperature cruiser carried the day...

 

+1, I want cops to be so comfortable that they don't want to stop and get out of their car to talk to me.

 

K9 cars have special features and electronics added (including a temp alarm) to make sure the dogs don't get overheated. If you ever see a CHP Crown Vic K9 car, notice the louvered vents in the hood - it is so the car can idle for extended periods with the AC on.

 

There's no such thing as common sense. If sense were common, more people would have some.

 

But in fairness? People have a right to treat their legally parked car any way they want.

In the summer, I try to remember to use my heatshield, and crack my windows for numerous reasons. To protect the interior, keep the internal temperature of the cabin down, and only one of the reasons is because I know that also when I return to the automobile and actually drive...I can use less resources cooling down the vehicle.

It seems to me if someone decideds or forgets to place a heatshield and crack a window, in an empty car...the only real "crime" would be if they return, get in the vehicle and then roll down the windows and blast the air conditioning to rapidly reduce temperature....

You can decide, to suffer a little..and let the vehicle cool down slower....burning your hands and butt...is a real good way for this general populace to learn to use a heatshield.

If I forget...and I admit I have forgotten on occasion, I will often upon returning to my vehicle open all the windows, and doors and simply wait a few minutes...the vehicle is not as "cool" as it may of been had I remembered to use the heatshield and crack the window but neither am I driving off in the rolling equivalent of the 7th circle of Hell....

My use of a heatshield is probably admittedly more with a desire to protect a mostly plastic interior from UV damage than it is to avoid the greenhouse affect within my vehicle.

Admittedly also? I live in the NW...so blasting hot days of Devils Anvil like sun are also rare....So the periods when I feel I have to routinely use a Heatshield are also usually well defined and rare..

 

Really? Even if it pollutes my air? And Sagebrush's water? And melts glaciers that flood your house? And uses fuel that could feed starving people?

Besides, it isn't about rights. It is about stupidity.

 

I don't use a heatshield or anything. But I dont used HVAC at all in my car. When I get in, I roll down the windows and drive. The only time the AC is on is when it needs to defrost and even then there has only been once that the fog came back after wiping it away so I actually needed to use it...

 

You should run your AC at least once a month for couple of minutes. It's good for the seals.

 

But that will lower my mpg by like 0.0001%!

 

Do it when you are going downhill and need more braking than regen will give you.

 

Along with the seals, it's good for Otters, Manatees, and Sea Lions too. And if you set it at Max, the Penguins like it as well!

:yo:

 

I can't get my wife to use the sun shield. I like to use it for fear the panel electronix might get fried. Maybe if I tell her better MPG...

 

Yes, and to avoid a debate over exactly how much polluting of air or melting of glaciers a legally but unrunning, parked vehicle without cracked windows and a sunshield is likely to create...

I'd say in general society allows a degree of freedom in the form of potential stupidity. It's not illegal to park your empty car without a sunshield nor with the windows uncracked...

I avoid it. I recommend both actions. But what is the alternative? Laws making it illegal?

Do you really want automobiles with self cracking windows and sunshield useage alarms? Would you really want a world where you could return to your vehicle to find a ticket for "Not placing a sunshield in your windshield"?

 

Common sense is indeed very common, it's just not the fountain of wisdom that some like to think it is.

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."

--Albert Einstein (attributed)

 

How about laws making stupidity and lacking common sense illegal?

This could be a new source of revenue for state and the federal governments!!!

Just think, this could be a new way to balance the budgets and deal with reducing the deficits!!

DBCassidy

 

Cute... really cute.

 

How about a culture which ridicules such idiots? Laws aren't the only way to get things done.

 

To paraphrase R. Heinlin, "One man's common sense is another man's belly laugh"