Outside Air Temperature

On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:46:33 -0700 (PDT), jacktheobscure RemoveThis @gmail.com
wrote:

>I think I understand why the computers in the Prius may need to know
>outside air temperature but can anyone give me a good reason why the
>car feels the need to tell me? I far as I know there's nothing I can
>do about it so why take up room on the display panel. What might be
>more helpful is telling me what the temp is within the car..
>
>Related issue, why the snow icon when it gets cold?
>
>Thanks
There's nothing you can do about it??? There's nothing you can do
about the passage of time, either, but the car has a clock. I,
personally, find it very helpful to know the outside temperature.
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<jacktheobscure.TakeThisOut@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>I think I understand why the computers in the Prius may need to know
> outside air temperature but can anyone give me a good reason why the
> car feels the need to tell me? I far as I know there's nothing I can
> do about it so why take up room on the display panel. What might be
> more helpful is telling me what the temp is within the car..
>
> Related issue, why the snow icon when it gets cold?
>
> Thanks

I thought the same thing about displaying the inside temperature at first,
but then I realized that the inside temperature is whatever I set it to when
I'm using the automatic A/C mode (once stabilized, that is). It seems even
less useful to know what the inside temperature is when you are telling it
what temperature you want it to be!
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<jacktheobscure.TakeThisOut@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>I think I understand why the computers in the Prius may need to know
> outside air temperature but can anyone give me a good reason why the
> car feels the need to tell me? I far as I know there's nothing I can
> do about it so why take up room on the display panel.

On numerous occasions I've turned off my climate control system in favor of
cooling/heating with outside air. Knowing the outside air temperature is
necessary to this value judgment.
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"Michelle Steiner" <michelle.TakeThisOut@michelle.org> wrote in message
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> In article <48b73c80.TakeThisOut@newsgate.x-privat.org>,
> "Was Istoben" <entschuldigen.TakeThisOut@oopla.com> wrote:
>
>> > I check the outside air temperature before I get in the car. I'm
>> > sure that you do too, but how do those others manage to miss doing
>> > that?
>> >
>> > -- Donate to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society; help send Michelle
>> > to the marathon.
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>>
>> Hang in there buddy, someday you will have an attached, heated
>> garage.
>
> Um, I don't need a heated garage in Phoenix, especially this time of
> year. Furthermore, only half the time I get into the car is it in the
> garage.
>
So, then, you don't know what you are talking about do you?
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"Elmo P. Shagnasty" <elmop.RemoveThis@nastydesigns.com> wrote in message
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> In article <48b7efac$1@newsgate.x-privat.org>,
> "Was Istoben" <entschuldigen.RemoveThis@oopla.com> wrote:
>
>> >> >> Hang in there buddy, someday you will have an attached, heated
>> >> >> garage.
>> >> >
>> >> > Over my dead body.
>> >> >
>> >> > The garage is that outbuilding where the gasoline and oil and other
>> >> > flammables are stored.
>> >>
>> >> Really? I call that my storage building.
>> >
>> > Really? What about the gasoline in your car?
>> >
>> > And garages are a perfect place to store, oh, the lawnmower. And the
>> > weed whacker. No need for a storage building. You might as well have
>> > a
>> > detached garage, then, if you think you need a storage building.
>>
>> Why would a presumptive prick like you care? You don't know me. You
>> know
>> nothing of my life and obviously you know very little about the Prius.
>
> Hit a nerve, did we?
>
> Hang in there, buddy. Someday you, too, will have common sense.
>
> Tell us all: what makes you say that I "know very little about the
> Prius"?

I know I moron when I read one.
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"Elmo P. Shagnasty" <elmop RemoveThis @nastydesigns.com> wrote in message
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> In article <48b87397 RemoveThis @newsgate.x-privat.org>,
> "Was Istoben" <entschuldigen RemoveThis @oopla.com> wrote:
>
>> > Tell us all: what makes you say that I "know very little about the
>> > Prius"?
>>
>> I know I moron when I read one.
>
> yes, you are.
>
> But how does that translate into your statement that I "know very little
> about the Prius"?
>
> Fact: you're an idiot who thinks it's perfectly reasonable to have to
> know the outside temperature from a gauge before rolling down the car
> window.
>
> You probably also want the clock to designate AM and PM.
>
> Fact: I've forgotten more about the Prius than you'll ever know.

Think about it. You know nothing of me but you write that. Is it true? Is
it not? It doesn't matter because you write of something you can't possibly
know and you do so with great conviction. You are, therefore, a moron.
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Elmo P. Shagnasty wrote:

> In article <48b8c0e6$1@newsgate.x-privat.org>,
> "Was Istoben" <entschuldigen.DeleteThis@oopla.com> wrote:
>
>
>>>Fact: you're an idiot who thinks it's perfectly reasonable to have to
>>>know the outside temperature from a gauge before rolling down the car
>>>window.
>>>
>>>You probably also want the clock to designate AM and PM.
>>>
>>>Fact: I've forgotten more about the Prius than you'll ever know.
>>
>>Think about it. You know nothing of me but you write that.
>
>
> hmmmmmmmm. Your writings on this subject have shown yourself for what
> you are.
>
> But then, you write plenty of things about me--and others, no
> doubt--without knowing the first thing.
>
>
>
>
>>It doesn't matter because you write of something you can't possibly
>>know and you do so with great conviction.
>
>
> I've never said "it's obvious you know very little about the Prius" to
> someone I don't know and whose knowledge of the Prius I know nothing
> about.
>
> You did, though. Hmmmmmmm....you wrote of something you can't possibly
> know and you did so with great conviction. Hmmmmm....
>
>
>
>>You are, therefore, a moron.
>
>
> You wrote of something you can't possible know and you did so with great
> conviction.
>
> I wonder what that makes you....hmmmm......
>
> Tell me, have you dug that hole deep enough to strike water yet? I
> imagine your feet HAVE to be wet by now, if not your knees.


More likely a case of "China Syndrome".
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Was Istoben <entschuldigen.RemoveThis@oopla.com> wrote:

> <jacktheobscure.RemoveThis@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:d9578066-6244-4bfc-869d-158e604957ec@a3g2000prm.googlegroups.com...
> >I think I understand why the computers in the Prius may need to know
> > outside air temperature but can anyone give me a good reason why the
> > car feels the need to tell me? I far as I know there's nothing I can
> > do about it so why take up room on the display panel.
>
> On numerous occasions I've turned off my climate control system in favor of
> cooling/heating with outside air. Knowing the outside air temperature is
> necessary to this value judgment.

Correct and the only additional item would be the humidity. But often my
climate options are:

1) AC - just the top vents. Cool air on the face allows warmer
temperature setting.

2) vents, no AC - this keeps the window open noise down making it easier
to listen to the radio

3) cycling AC, interior - keeps the windows from fogging in rain or high
humidity days

4) windows - when nothing good is on the radio or the outside smells are
so interesting

My personal taste is roughly 84 F. If it is warmer, windows only work if
at highway speeds. Once it reaches about 92 F., AC is pretty much
required or the heat becomes too fatiguing. But humidity and sun angles
have a lot to do with what works best.

Bob Wilson
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