Cars

Can Bird Poop Really Crack Your Car’s Windshield?

It’s one of life’s great mysteries: how much damage can bird poop falling at terminal velocity really do? Rhett Allain, Wired’s resident physics guy, did us all a kindness and set his equations on this serious and pressing matter.


March 8, 2009

OLED Windshields May Provide the Evolution of the Middle Finger

This OLED windshield concept has some nice safety possibilities, like a more visible brake light and turn signals. But I want one so I can give a giant digital middle finger to the jerk tailing me.