Skyscraper melts car

[Puddenchucker]

New skyscraper reflects sunlight on to car and melts bits of it:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-239306...

[vit4]

That explains the new CLA then.

[Snowboy]

Your car is bucked.
Yes, Bucked, with a B.

[SturdyHSV]

'your car's bucked, could you give us a call?'

Is 'bucked' really what they wrote on there?

EDIT:

Damn, too slow...

[DonkeyApple]

It's an odd story.

Bloke parks up car and while he is away some damage is done to it and the party at fault not only notices it before the owner but makes sure he finds a nice note effectively admitting fault. They then pay up to fix his car.

The bloke then seems to bh a bit.

Well done Land Secs. Jag owner, loser.

[rpguk]

I'd say it's surely newsworthy though? I thought the bloke came across as quite reasonable too. I also like how he made the reporter shoe-horn his company name into the article

[va1o]

Very strange. Any better pictures?

[Cactussed]

I work right next to this.

The light and heat which is generated at pavement level on a sunny day is truly staggering, so I can well believe what happened to that car. Its sufficiently hot and bright enough to be genuinely unpleasant to walk through or stand in.

God knows how they will fix it. Unintended consequences etc.

[CraigyMc]

Cactussed said:

I work right next to this.

The light and heat which is generated at pavement level on a sunny day is truly staggering, so I can well believe what happened to that car. Its sufficiently hot and bright enough to be genuinely unpleasant to walk through or stand in.

God knows how they will fix it. Unintended consequences etc.

They should install solar panels above the road.

C

[12v3pot]

I had a friend who showed me what mischief you can do with a parabolic mirror. Seems the architect didn't quite think things through.

In tomorrow's paper some journo will be BBQing in the suspended parking bay without using fuel.

[rpguk]

Ha ha, it's got to happen.

I haven't seen the cooking an egg on a car bonnet trick that used to be used on breakfast TV and the like when I was a kid.

The architects probably only modelled based on the past 3-4 crap summers the UK suffered.

[Monty Python]

Cactussed said:

I work right next to this.

The light and heat which is generated at pavement level on a sunny day is truly staggering, so I can well believe what happened to that car. Its sufficiently hot and bright enough to be genuinely unpleasant to walk through or stand in.

God knows how they will fix it. Unintended consequences etc.

Put an anti-reflective coating on the glass :-)

[12v3pot]

Monty Python said:

Put an anti-reflective coating on the glass :-)

What's the betting that the energy absorbed by the coating was not factored into the glass' heat expansion calculations. Cue lots of raining glass. Different hazard, and even less fun.

It's all a bit "bouncy bridge".

[kotafey]

Is it a coincidence that the car is black and would it have made any difference if it was white or silver I wonder? I have a feeling the answer is 'probably not'.

[Superhoop]

kotafey said:

Is it a coincidence that the car is black and would it have made any difference if it was white or silver I wonder? I have a feeling the answer is 'probably not'.

It looks like an XF, so body colour would have made no difference - the bit that has melted is a plastic trim on the D pillar, which is gloss black on all of them, regardless of the main body colour

[Ari]

I particularly enjoyed the fact that, upon being told of the damage to his Jag, the owner exclaimed "Crikey, that's awful."

Proper Jaaaag owner that!

[Ari]

Superhoop said:

It looks like an XF, so body colour would have made no difference

XJ surely?

[kVA]

Ari said:

Superhoop said:

It looks like an XF, so body colour would have made no difference

XJ surely?

Looks like an XJ to me (or an old Granada Ghia Coupe - looks the same ) and the scariest thing about that picture to me, is nothing to do with the skyscraper, but the crappy perspex window!!! Don't think you'd find one of them in a Merc, BMW or Audi, would you?

[Ari]

I can see some perspex trim wrapped around the D pillar, but not a perspex window.

[kVA]

Ari said:

I can see some perspex trim wrapped around the D pillar, but not a perspex window.

Oops - oh yes! LOL I see now (and I should have known that, as I went to the internal launch of the car, long before it went public)

Still st on a top end luxury car though...