Scary.
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Itâs a thing. Clean snow off your entire car, folks!
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When I had a car, it was a Fiat 500. The roof and windshield form a continuous arc.
Winters in Minnesota involve a lot of inconvenient freezing and thawing. Sometimes all within 24 hours. The net result is, one Saturday morning I had a thin crust of ice and snow on the dome-like roof of the Fiat 500. I brushed off as much as I could, but lowest layer was frozen in place. It wasnât going anywhere, so I drove off.
After about half an hour I came to a stop sign. As I slowed down carefully, the crusty sheet of ice slid smoothly and perfectly down over the windshield. I could not see anything forward.
The heat inside the cabin had warmed the roof just enough so that the iceâs bond was melted.
Fortunately this was in a low-traffic area, not on the freeway. Sticking my head out of the window I was able to pull off the road and deal with it.
So, in short, snow on your roof can be dangerous to yourself as well.
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Good story! (Could go in the tell me a story thread too.)
Oh wait-- Cool story, bro. 
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Thereâs that, or the âdonât clean snow off your roof, hit the brakes, then congratulate yourself on having no frontward visibilityâ.
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[This one is used only very sparingly; in fact, this may well be only the 2nd time itâs seen a forum.]
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While catching up on videos from the Tampa RV show, I noticed YT recommendations with AI-generated images promoting new models from major manufacturers. Many of the commenters are pissed about the TARDIS-like interior images supposedly taken inside these âvehicles,â as well as the narration:
If a fake vehicle video goes viral, would it encourage manufacturers to make it? Should we be producing and promoting content with the EVs and other options we want?
For some reason, Iâm seeing variations on this theme, too:
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The same thing exactly happened to me in my Plymouth minivan years ago, fortunately as I came to a stop at a red light.
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OMG, this so much. Mrs. Ficus has a car on order, and to help deal with the anxiety of waiting for it to arrive (itâs currently sitting at a port overseas), Iâve been trying to mine YouTube for as much content as possible about her car to help make the wait more tolerable.
As Iâve already watched pretty much video on YouTube on her car, I check daily sorting by upload date to see if thereâs anything new. Every day thereâs some 20-30 videos of AI generated slop that I have to scroll through. I can always identify them because they have breathless titles with images that look sort of like something kind of resembling the vehicle, but at the same time nothing like it at all (just like the videos you linked). Itâs always AI generated voices over slideshows of AI images sometimes intermixed with manufactured-supplied press kit videos.
As YouTube doesnât let me block accounts from search results, I have to sort through tons of this shit every day. Itâs really frustrating.
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Nice road.
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