Every time you use your windshield washer, you coat the windshield with Rain-X.
Once you have a good coating built-up, you only need to use your wipers occasionally, even in a driving rain.
Posted on 12/15/2013 2:58:23 PM PST by Olog-hai
It smears flies across your view and freezes up in winter, but now the humble windscreen wiper is destined for history.
Supercar designers McLaren are working on secret plans to replace the rubber wiper with a hi-tech ultrasound device that stops anything sticking to the windscreen. It would mean wiper arms heading down the same road as wind-up windows and ashtrays as they vanish from cars.
Adapted from a similar system used on fighter jets, the proposed design is understood to center on high-frequency sound waves that effectively create a force field across the windscreen preventing water, insects and mud from resting on the glass. …
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Heated windshield.
This afternoon. 8” of snow on my Highlander. Under that, a 1/4 inch of ice. I just said “Screw this,” yanked the door open, turned the heat up to 80, and came back inside to spend another 1/2 hour here.
“I also want my ashtray back.”
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Cars don’t have ashtrays now? I have not had, or needed, a car
since 2004.
Well, you’ll just have to stop dating.
You're right, it's just you.........
There’s also the possibility of someday “quantum levitating” water away from a windshield. It’s the reverse effect of how flies can stick to windows.
As a side note, I love Rain-X........
Those would be nice too.
While we're at it, I want my 1970 Hurst-Olds 442 back.
9 MPG, but I covered West Texas to Albuquerque in just under an hour and a half one time.
Brakes and suspension were not as good as today, but the "go factor" was a lot more exhilarating, once all 4 barrels of the carburetor opened up.
My ‘68 Barracuda had that and a foot pump for the wipers. It worked great. With some practice you could put the most fluid at the height of the biggest bug splat and adjust for wind speed. You could also push really hard and mist the windshield of tailgaters.
Have her slip in on the driver’s side, and that way she has farther to go before she can hug the passenger side door.
8^)
Here in Denver, the cops will cite ya for doing that.
Some fighter jets, like the old F-4 Phantom, used high pressure, high temperature bleed air blasted at the windscreen from a duct at the base of the windscreen. Need a turbine engine to have bleed air.
The ending of the bench seat and the requiring of seat belts, sure didn't help the dating part.
Everybody needs a car man. My ashtray now is a water bottle. Sometimes I buy a bottle of water just to have an ashtray.
Lots of cup holders, no ashtrays.
Or buy a Japanese pickup truck
However, they will live on in the lyrics of the song "Me and Bobbie McGee".
Every time you use your windshield washer, you coat the windshield with Rain-X.
Once you have a good coating built-up, you only need to use your wipers occasionally, even in a driving rain.
Any date I have these days has to figure out how to open her own gosh-darned door or she gets left at the curb.
I believe they were called vent windows, but I like your term better. And yes, they were great because they would direct air from outside directly to your face and upper body, air conditioning without an air conditioner. And not having to crank down the window with hand cranks. Lastly, a better place to flick cigarette ashes out without having to clean out the ashtray. Just sayin’.
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