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'Cars don't melt in the sunshine': San Antonio woman's Prius damaged by sun rays

The back end of a San Antonio woman's car looks like it melted, and the owner thinks Toyota should repair it. But, she says the carmaker blames it on a phenomenon called solar convergence.

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when he said the heat from the sun became unbearable. >> my head was steaming hot my hair was burning. i could smell my hair burning. >> reporter: he ran for cover to a nearby umbrella. he left his newspaper behind and he said the rays melted some of the plastic away. >> this was not a little uncomfortable, this was impossible to sit there. you were literally being burned. this is the swimming pool and this is where i was seated. >> reporter: he said the sun's rays were bouncing off the side of the vdara hotel and focusing right on him. a phenomenon known as solar convergence. the intense heat is created by the curved glass circle of the hotel. it bounces the rays from the sun and concentrates the rays in a hot zone moving across the pool area. >> i said to the staff, i said i don't know if you know what's going on out here, but i was being burned and they are like, yeah, we know, we call it the

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