Is There Anything Available on the Market that Measures Headwind?


Peter, Albion Park

QUESTION:

Is there anything available on the market that measures headwind?

I would be interested in a device that would involve a sensor being mounted on the vehicle grille or bull bar and send a reading via blue tooth to a display in the vehicle.

Headwind is so significant that some of my friends stop and wait for it to pass due to its adverse affect on fuel consumption.

ANSWER:

An interesting question Peter. I havenโ€™t heard of anything commercially available for vehicles.

Aircraft use various devices to measure airspeed. However, I canโ€™t find anything equivalent for vehicles.

I did find a forum on the Tesla page relating to this. Someone had developed an app to guesstimate wind speed using current weather information from the weather bureau. This combined with the vehicleโ€™s location, direction and ground speed gave them a reasonable estimate.

They had a link to the app, but it no longer works. This would probably be the best approach, however I couldnโ€™t find any other apps that do this.

If any of you know more about this topic, then by all means add your comments below. Iโ€™m curious too!

Regards,

Andrew


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