– Why can’t front windshields have the same defrosting method as rear windshields?

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The rear windshield defrosters seem so much more effective. Is it just the lines across the drivers field of view that makes it decidedly unsafe?

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They can. This is pretty much standard in Ford vehicles here in the UK.

I was a Ford owner for 20 years and have just moved to a BMW and very much miss my heated windshields!

Edit: I might be *very* wrong, but I’m sure I read once that Ford held the patent on heated windshields, which is why other manufacturers couldn’t implement it. If I *did* read that, it would have been many years ago, so I don’t know the current state of such patents.

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