WhyNot?

More Wipers

Category: Neat new features
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This is an idea that I can not figure out why is not implemented. Even if it indeed is not a good idea, I'd like to know why.

Why not install wipers on cars for the side and back windows? After all, when it is raining outside, I, as a driver, would like to have a clear view all around me, and I can not open the side windows under such weather. In short, without this new feature, I'd be risking an accident.

There are some cars that have back-window wipers. Why can't the same be done with other cars?

Additionally, if the side windows are open, no damage may necessarily result from turning on the side wipers -- the latter can be automatically deactivated when the relevant windows are partially or fully open.

Also, such wipers may not stand tough weather, but this is a trivial objection since they are better than nothing, a characteristic which would make this idea worth implementing.

Yaakov Simon, Mar 25 2007

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this is a great idea considering while driving my truck it is near impossible to see out my side windows while its raining. i agree totally but then again Rain-X helps allot too... problem solved

A-Ronn, Dec 27 2007

The rear-window wiper is a luxury-car feature. What would help make it more widespread would be if auto-safety regulations weren't all 100% Required. That has a tendency to exclude improvements for which there isn't an overwhelming case, such as this one. What I suggest instead is that, for mild improvements, regulators should provide a list of ten improvements (a built-in Lo-Jack system being one, for instance), each with a point value, and a requirement that manufacturers achieve a certain minimum score, by any combination of features.

That would be a less heavy-handed way of regulating. Not mandates, but a mix-and-match arrangement. Nice-to-have features would get credit, not just need-to-have features. It wouldn't be a minimal system either. Some manufacturers would try to over-achieve, so they could brag about it in their advertising. Then other manufacturers would try to catch up.

Roger Knights, May 26 2008