What is the difference between sitting in a sauna vs sitting in a car left outside in the summer heat? Why is one regarded as healthy and the other often fatal?

Question

What is the difference between sitting in a sauna vs sitting in a car left outside in the summer heat? Why is one regarded as healthy and the other often fatal?

In: Biology

Answer 1

1) The fatality of cars is normally in reference to young children and pets that cannot get out of the car if they start to overheat. Adults are the ones who generally use saunas and it is rare for them to die in a car from overheating because they can get out.

2) Cars actually get far hotter than saunas in the regions that really warn about the dangers of leaving a child in a car.