Air-conditioners do great good, but at a high environmental cost

Re:Air-conditioners do great good, but at a high environment... by njarboe on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @06:16PM (#17863424)

As an American I recently rented a Volkswagen in Austria. I found it funny/ironic that the inside temperature settings had half degree steps with all of the Europeans I've heard complain about the Fahrenheit scale use in US. So at least some German wanted that granularity.

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Re:Air-conditioners do great good, but at a high environment... by Johnny555 on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @10:26PM (#17864947)

Maybe they did that since they had the space -- a Fahrenheit display needs to show 3 digits since 100+ degrees F is possible but if it's 100C, then you've got bigger things to worry about than your car's temperature display.

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Re:Air-conditioners do great good, but at a high environment... by njarboe on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @01:06PM (#17869860)

I doubt you can set the temp control in a car to 100F. Unless you are in a sauna, no one is ever going to want to have that high a temp.

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Re:Air-conditioners do great good, but at a high environment... by Symbiote on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @06:31PM (#17863526)

No doubt if you change the settings on the car to American, it has half degrees Fahrenheit.

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Re:Air-conditioners do great good, but at a high environment... by rconti on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @08:29PM (#17864140)

Wrong.

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