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Have you ever looked closely at a car windshield?

The edge of the glass is painted where it is glued to the car but it has these small dots between the clear and painted glass.

These are there for a reason. When the sun hits the glass the painted areas and the clear areas will absorb heat at different rates. This causes the glass to expand and contract differently putting stress on the glass.

These dots help the glass to warm up more evenly over a larger area so the glass does not suffer stress that could cause it to spontaneously explode.

Fun fact: the Tesla cybertruck doesn’t have these.

Yes, the glass will spontaneously crack or explode in the sun.

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[–] satans_methpipe@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Sun is a terrorist. We should send a real tough guy to fight the sun.

[–] PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 6 hours ago

I got a new factoid and get to snidely laugh at Musk?

Must be my birthday come early.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 2 points 7 hours ago

Until Tesla, companies could either tell warranty claimers to deal with it themselves or do shitty engineering.
Now they get to do both.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 13 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

Well, yeah. They're only bulletproof. Everything but bullets can easily break them. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[–] Opisek@lemmy.world 11 points 12 hours ago

And also bullets

[–] riodoro1@lemmy.world 6 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Imagine people paid a lot of money for this

[–] mooncake@lemm.ee 5 points 8 hours ago

100k for a car that's super glued together rofl

[–] jaemo@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 hours ago

Imagine people paid any money at all for this

[–] match@pawb.social 19 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

is it still terrorism if i just shine a heatlamp at a tesla and its windshield explodes on its own

[–] Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone 1 points 12 hours ago

Just cause similar damage and when they look into it they'll find articles saying it did it on its own.

[–] noride@lemm.ee 83 points 1 day ago (2 children)

For the curious, the edges are painted because UV light weakens the adhesive holding the windshield secure over time. The paint protects it from deterioration, and as mentioned in the post, the dots help graduate the temperature levels between clear glass and black paint, which prevents cracking

Who knew cars were so fucking hard? Everyone but Elon, evidently.

[–] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 17 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Elon legitimately probably looked at what it cost to add those dots, without caring about why they are there, then proclaimed a cost savings by removing a useless feature.

[–] ShankShill@sh.itjust.works 6 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

The manufacturer of the glass probably warned him.

[–] Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone 7 points 12 hours ago

I'm 100% sure he's been warned of every dumbass decision he's made at his companies, which just makes him that much more stupid.

It's one thing to be stupid in areas you're not an expert, most people are fine with that. It's a whole other level of stupid to be unwilling to learn from the experts in that area.

But even if you're not willing or able to learn, it's an additional magnitude of stupid to go around making decisions in those areas as though you are an expert instead of just letting the experts do their thing.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago

bUt He'S a GeNiUz!!!

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 20 hours ago

Looks like each of these windshields could get 20 years per DOJ

[–] lobut@lemmy.ca 38 points 1 day ago (1 children)

These dots help the glass to warm up more evenly over a larger area so the glass does not suffer stress that could cause it to spontaneously explode.

Man, feels like I just got a 99% Invisible Lesson from this post.

[–] RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 9 hours ago

Yeah I had no idea why those dots existed

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

A somewhat similar reason as to why that dive boat exploded, but what do you expect from a guy who doesn't know basic engineering?

[–] i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca 2 points 21 hours ago

And yet I have it on good authority that he knows more about manufacturing than anyone else on earth.

Weird.

[–] theLaLiLuLeLol@kbin.earth 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Charge the sun with terrorism!

[–] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 hours ago

You (the sun) have committed a crime

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 23 hours ago

I love this.

[–] casmael@lemm.ee 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh sick what a cool innovative feature

[–] Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf 2 points 22 hours ago

But you have to pay for that!

[–] reddfugee@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Something about this post blows up my Lemmy client (Memmy on iOS); I tap the post in the feed, it slides to a black screen, and the scroll bar shrinks as the page grows infinitely. The comment window also jiggles up and down as I’m typing this. Does anyone else run into this? (Assuming I’ll be able to see replies, lol)

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

The images are hotlinked to tumblr, which might have something to do with it, but that's all I can think of.

[–] TowardsTheFuture@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago

Some apps don’t handle images as well if they haven’t been updated and I think memmy is one of those. Voyager works fine, so I would suggest using that instead (or others, voyager does have a few small differences to Memmy.)