Customers, in general, are not interested in fuel efficiency as a concept. They are driven by (usually economic) incentives.

Who? thinks?? this???

If everybody did the sensible and responsible thing at all times, we wouldn’t need any laws.

Because some people are short sighted assholes who ruin things for everyone else.

The makers want there to be a uniform set of rules. Few makers put seat belts into cars until it was mandated because the slight difference in cost might affect sales. They didn’t care about the additional $10 in cost as long as every maker had to do the same. Same with airbags and other changes. 

Oil companies are richer than both the people and the  car companies combined.

Cops are trained to be fucked up. They’re trained to kill rather than de-escalate.

Actually, Trump doesn’t care what happens. He just needed to show his voters he is shoving it to California. If it gets shut down in court, he can claim liberal activist judges. It’s all an election ploy.

Careful what you wish for. Watching Biden continually attempt to blast his foot off while his campaign runs damage control is giving me anxiety about November.

Cop cars often have a plastic rear bench. It’s very possible that there will be no person detection system in the rear seat.

Please remove “Dr. Science” from your name.

It’s holding 133F - unless we’re talking creep (unlikely at 133F) you’re never going to reach any material melting points. And you’re certainly not shocking anything. It’s not like the car is going from 133F to -50F repeatedly. 

I got to sit handcuffed for an hour in the back of a cop car while a cop unsuccessfully searched my car, against my will, for drugs. He intentionally moved the vehicle so that the back window was facing the sun and turned off the climate control in Houston Texas in the hottest part of the summer. he kept telling me…

I am a horrible person and will be going to hell but I do have a question.

You’d have to hit 400 degrees Fahrenheit for it to start cooking off rounds.

How soon until “we accidentally left it on” with a black man in handcuffs inside?

135 is cooler than a car sitting in the sun in Georgia in August. Forgotten kids die in cars every year unfortunately.

Why do I feel like we’re not going to make it to August before someone attempts to use this on a suspect in custody.

Finally, a car that my wife may not be cold in...

Luckily there is no possible way for this feature to be abused.