If almost everyone knows that the windshield in a modern car has heating filaments, then not everyone knows about some other plywood possibilities. What smart options are “sewn” in the windshield, says the AvtoVzglyad portal.
Did you know that almost 70% of cars in recent years have been equipped with athermal glass that can let light and heat into the interior in optimal doses for the driver and passengers? For comparison, get your back from a brand new foreign car, but look at the domestic “Zhiguli” – the difference, as they say, is obvious. Special sputtering with silver ions not only helps to maintain the temperature inside the car regardless of natural disasters outside, but also prevents fogging and even “freezing” of the windshield.
And what do you think of the antennas, lidars and sensors built into the front? Of course, if your car isn’t trained to read road signs, brake automatically and see obstacles in the roadway, then you can only dream of advanced radars. But the antenna, presented in the form of thin metallized wires, can be found in almost every “frontal”. Sometimes it is also a separate miniature structure, soldered into glass from the inside thanks to the so-called printing technologies. This does not affect the rating in any way, which is why many do not even think about the fact that the signal from the audio system comes directly from the car window.
However, some manufacturers install antennas in other body elements. Most often they can be seen in the form of “fins” on the back of the roof of a passenger car.
But back to the windbreaker. In order not to kill the driver and passengers with fragments after an accident, windshields are made with a special film rolled up with several layers of plywood. It is she who does not allow the glass to shatter and break and damage it only in the most affected places.
And along the edges of the “lobach” you can see an ornament with a black pattern, which happens in the form of circles of different diameters and strips from 1.5 to 3 cm long. These markings are usually called frites. Thanks to the application of specialized ceramic paint, the patterns retain direct sunlight and also smooth out the effect of reflection caused by the play of light on the joints of the body with the windshield. In other words, frits protect the driver against glare.
However, these are not the only features with which the windshield of a modern car can surprise someone. For example, it knows perfectly well how to transmit information from the projection screen, change color in the event of a risk of a frontal collision and even dim in the event of sharp flashes of light.
Did you know that almost 70% of cars in recent years have been equipped with athermal glass that can let light and heat into the interior in optimal doses for the driver and passengers? For comparison, get your back from a brand new foreign car, but look at the domestic “Zhiguli” – the difference, as they say, is obvious. Special sputtering with silver ions not only helps to maintain the temperature inside the car regardless of natural disasters outside, but also prevents fogging and even “freezing” of the windshield.
And what do you think of the antennas, lidars and sensors built into the front? Of course, if your car isn’t trained to read road signs, brake automatically and see obstacles in the roadway, then you can only dream of advanced radars. But the antenna, presented in the form of thin metallized wires, can be found in almost every “frontal”. Sometimes it is also a separate miniature structure, soldered into glass from the inside thanks to the so-called printing technologies. This does not affect the rating in any way, which is why many do not even think about the fact that the signal from the audio system comes directly from the car window.
However, some manufacturers install antennas in other body elements. Most often they can be seen in the form of “fins” on the back of the roof of a passenger car.
But back to the windbreaker. In order not to kill the driver and passengers with fragments after an accident, windshields are made with a special film rolled up with several layers of plywood. It is she who does not allow the glass to shatter and break and damage it only in the most affected places.
And along the edges of the “lobach” you can see an ornament with a black pattern, which happens in the form of circles of different diameters and strips from 1.5 to 3 cm long. These markings are usually called frites. Thanks to the application of specialized ceramic paint, the patterns retain direct sunlight and also smooth out the effect of reflection caused by the play of light on the joints of the body with the windshield. In other words, frits protect the driver against glare.
However, these are not the only features with which the windshield of a modern car can surprise someone. For example, it knows perfectly well how to transmit information from the projection screen, change color in the event of a risk of a frontal collision and even dim in the event of sharp flashes of light.
Source: Avto Vzglyad
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