After you start the car, you have to be driving more than 64.3 km/h (40 mph) for up to five minutes before the temperature gets updated, Nalepka says. "This strategy was intended to eliminate ...

Thermometers and thermistors do really similar things, so this isn’t why your car is so bad at measuring outside temperatures (but we’re still appalled and kind of upset that it’s not a ...

Those photos of dashboard temperature gauges that pop up on social media feeds when it’s hot out — “111 degrees?! Whaaaaaa” — are a bit misleading.Yes, it’s hot out, and it’s been ...

Temperature readings on digital car thermometers are “usually higher” than the actual air temperature, said Robert Haley, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Melbourne.

Temperature readings on digital car thermometers are “usually higher” than the actual air temperature, said Robert Haley, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Melbourne.