How does a car measure the outside temperature at speed, without it skewing for windchill or engine/surface heat?
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Windchill is a mammal thing, we are hotter than our environment most of the time and do things like sweat to cool off. Thermometers don’t. The car actually needs the temperature to calculate the air density, which is important to put the right amount of gas in the cylinder. That’s why the onboard computer has a temperature sensor in the shade of the air plenum, showing the driver is a no-cost bonus feature.
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