I’d support a law that says if you’re going to build a parking lot, it needs to be covered in solar panels. That way the cars under it are shaded, and clean electricity is being produced.
Any company that has acres of parking lots is run by fools if they don’t utilize all that land for free power.
It seems like white and silver are two of the most common car colors. If color has a measurable impact, it should already be measurable
Paint everything white to make up for the loss of the polar ice caps /s
Including the cars! Windshields and all!
This unironically a thing some people have advocated for.
… this makes so much damn sense. Every time I had the misfortune of walking through a loaded grocery store parking lot in the summer it always felt intensely hot even compared to the asphalt roadways.
Giant metal piles of glass and metal don’t tend to cool off that well in the sun.
Not only that but they act as solar ovens.
They also said that adoption of electric vehicles, which emit less waste heat than conventional cars, and make sure these new cars are built with light, heat-reflecting paints at the vehicle design stage.
This like a “more guns” solution to gun violence… except, applied to cars.
That’s some crazy mental gymnastics to not say “We need more public transit to get cars off the road”.
It really is. If the default is “everyone must have a car to go anywhere”, then there will be no solutions that actually work for the betterment of the environment or society.
A more low caliber guns solution to gun violence.
“A .22 is barely lethal, this will lower the fatality rate of mass shootings.”
Not more, just better. I am yet to see a better gun, but in this case I would argue these measures could result in a better car. Although an ev with reflective paint wouldn’t be as helpful in combatting the heat island effect as a public transport vehicle with the same reflective paint, considering that would leave a lot more space for greenery.
