Technology

It's staggering to me the number of black cars being sold in hot countries like Australia. Not to mention just how hard they are to see against the background of a bitumen road.

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.

I agree clarification never hurts, but the entire world except for ~4% of highly entitled population will read that right.

If it's like this stuff then it's more than just white paint.

trick is to paint the windows

To add to your comment, ceramic window tint is a night and day difference. My steering wheel, shifter, and all couldn't be touched after work. I wore driving gloves to get home. With the tint there slightly warm and the AC doesn't take half the drive to catch up, the car is cool by the first stop light.

Maybe they should sell cars with that by default instead?

I will assume celsius since the IR image shows around 45 and 35 degrees in direct sunlight.

This might match your criteria:

(Jokes aside, I do agree with your sentiment)

°C, which is not bad. Official press release (I think): https://global.nissannews.com/en/releases/nissan-trialing-cool-paint-technology

No, only Nissans. It says right there.

Mythbusters did an experiment with a black car and a white car hitting in the sun. The black car was 12 degrees Celsius hotter. Claiming that the paint makes no difference is such a weird take. I thought this was common knowledge as well as many people I've met avoid darker colours in summer and such.