– 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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My Ford (a Mondeo in the UK, same model is called Fusion in the US) literally has this. There are lines in the windscreen but you’d have to great real close to even see them.

Works really well too… it’ll defrost even heavy snow in a minute or two.

It’s to do with patents and royalties. Someone owns the idea to put that tech in a front window legally and safely, and everyone else has to pay for it, probably for every window they make including new ones. Car companies would rather use other ways that they don’t have to pay as much for, or for which they own the idea themselves.

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