Why aren’t car windows made out of something non-breakable to deter thieves? Or simply laminated like a windshield?

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Why aren’t car windows made out of something non-breakable to deter thieves? Or simply laminated like a windshield?

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Anonymous 0 Comments

Imagine you are trapped in the car, door won‘t open, shit‘s on fire, and now you can‘t even shatter the glass

Anonymous 0 Comments

Probably because they want you to be able to break them and escape in the event of an accident or emergency. What would you do if you accidentally drove into deep water?

Anonymous 0 Comments

Nothing is really “non-breakable” the question is just how and when it fails. The calculation with glass in cars is that the most important issue is rider/driver safety, and that means a failure mode that doesn’t produce large sharp shards of glass, polycarbonate or whatever material you want to use. It’s also helpful if you as someone inside of the car have a prayer of escaping in the event of an emergency that makes the doors impossible to open.

Thieves are a pain, but not so much as being decapitated by a flying blade of window glass.

Anonymous 0 Comments

Basically it’s more important that the fire department or the people inside the car can break the windows without heavy equipment than to make ot thief proof. Making it thief proof would make the car a potential death trap. Also, a “professional” thief would just bring a portable angle grinder with a diamond blade to compensate anyway.

Anonymous 0 Comments

So you can get out in case of emergency.

Tempered glass is also stronger which would likely work much better for side windows being rolled up and down on channels as it needs to retain it’s shape.

Anonymous 0 Comments

Broken car windows and thieves are a much smaller problem than the massive safety issue of having unbreakable windows or windows that break in a dangerous way.

Anonymous 0 Comments

Side windows use “Safety” glass. It’s pre-stressed so that it shatters into small, less dangerous, pieces when broken.

This is so during an accident, where it is common for doors to be pinned or damaged and they can’t be opened, for it to be easy to escape out the more easily shatter-able window.

Anonymous 0 Comments

For safety. Say you drove your car into a lake. You can’t open the doors because the water pressure won’t let you until you can fill the car with water.
You need to be able to break the window to escape.

They’re designed to break and break as safe as possible which is why you end up with very small pieces of glass and not glass shards when you break a car window

Anonymous 0 Comments

Because if you got into an accident or had to be removed from the car, a brittle substance is ideal for a quick extraction.

Also, making a car out of solid steel would make it hard to drive since you cannot see through steel.

Anonymous 0 Comments

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