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Nissan develops paint that keeps cars cool in summer heat (www.asahi.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Nissan Motor Co. said it has developed a new type of paint that significantly reduces the temperature inside vehicles parked in direct sunlight.

The surface of a car coated with the innovative material remains up to 12 degrees cooler than that of a vehicle with standard paint, tests showed.

The company said the coating material can help rein in the temperature rise not only on the car's body but also in the vehicle when exposed to direct sunlight.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Or 53.6 degrees Fahrenheit if you believe whoever wrote the page for Nissan lmao. I guess they just typed it into a converter with no context, and the converter spat out an answer amounting to "if your thermometer says it's 12 degrees C, that would be 53.6 degrees F"... but without that context.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

There probably wasn't even anyone who actually wrote it. Fed it into some LLM to generate the page and no one actually edited it to make sure everything made sense

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

How would you know it’s wrong if you don’t know fahrenheit

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Fair point, but I guess I would hope that the person being paid to write the copy would check it, since getting that right seems like it's part of their job description ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

That’s why it’s a better choice to just clearly identify the units and not attempt to be clever about converting for a particular audience