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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hmm, that’s a strange comment you left. I’m not the person you responded to but:

When I get off work it’s just before dawn (coldest part of the day) and it’s frequently 10 Fahrenheit or lower in the winter (below freezing). I wear gloves in my car in the winter because cars don’t warm up enough for the heat to come on right away. I don’t want to walk through the cold into a cold car and grab a literal freezing steering wheel and hold on to it for 10 mins until the heat kicks on. My drive is about 35 min in good conditions.

I’m assuming you live in a warm place or don’t drive a car, good for you. Wish I had public transportation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

They probably drive a car where they can tell the car to warm or cool the cabin remotely. My problem is opposite yours, even with the windscreen covered the car will heat to 50°C (112°F) and if sunlight was on anything, that thing will be too hot to touch.

So I tell my car to keep the air con on while I'm in the shops, tell it to start cooling when I'm returning to it after I've been away longer than I like to run AC

In your scenario, I would ask the car to be warm an hour before I needed it