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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Cockpit windows are heated by passing a current through a thin layer of gold sandwiched in the glass. Too expensive for cars
A new windshield on my 2020 GMC Sierra was like 1k give or take after my OEM got chipped and cracked by a rock down the highway.
So cost has got to come into play in 99% of cases. Simply not a feature customers are going to pay a premium for so it’s not worth it for manufacturers
Cockpit windows are heated by passing a current through a thin layer of gold sandwiched in the glass. Too expensive for cars
Cockpit windows are heated by passing a current through a thin layer of gold sandwiched in the glass. Too expensive for cars
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