Ventilated seats may do this but better.

I’ve owned two cars with ventilated seats. In both, I never used the function more than twice because the primary result was less “oh, how refreshing” and more “did I wet myself?!”

On a hot day I once turned it on for a passenger without saying anything (it had been a few years of owning the car and I forgot the side effect). He had never been in my car before and didn’t know about the function. (I promise I wasn’t trying to prank him, I just forgot). Within a few minutes he asked me to pull over because he was worried he’d had an accident.

In short, I don’t recommend ventilated seats.

That’s wild! I’ve had it in two cars and in the summer after getting sweaty outside it’s pretty great. Though I get used to it pretty quickly so I have to turn it off and on again semi frequently. Both cars also ventilated the lower and mid back which was nice.

Ah, mine never did anything but right below the butt, so perhaps that’s why I feel differently. The main car in question was also a 2014, so perhaps the technology hadn’t been fully developed by then. It was also “air conditioned” rather than “ventilated,” but I’m not sure if there’s a difference other than the name.

Though I’m sorry I can’t share the joy, it’s great that you benefitted!

Both of these just let in outside air so maybe that’s the difference. Could also be I’m in a dry climate. I imagine in the south with dew points over 70f it feels different than here with dew points below 0f.

What do you mean let in outside air? It’s the same air going out of your vents. If you put it on recirculate your seat AC will be recirculated air too.

Not in my 2014 Corvette or my 2009 370Z. It just lets in outside air from another path as far as I know. Both communities agreed that’s the path and in my own testing I found it to be true. That said I’ve never looked up a technical document on it.

So you don’t actually get heated or cooled seats, just outside air seats?

It does heated or ambient.