tinted windshield

[Travis B]

Windshield or "safety glass" is desiged to turn into tiny bits of reletively unsharp glass when struck. It's made to "break away" when something like you head impacts it.



The film bonds the glass together and keeps the glass from "doing its thing". Now when you head hits the glass it just bows out and more force is applied to your cranium. I have also heard of a case where someones head went through the glass but the glass didn't break away. Instead the head went through (picture a tear in the windshield) and then when the body tried to come back to the seat the persons head was stuck on the outside. I guess the result nearly decapitated the body.

Anyways, That's what I heard.. :shrug:

windshields are laminated so they don't explode....side glasses are designed to shatter and break aprat but windshields are not they will shatter but will not break apart..this is to try and keeo you from getting ejected from the vehicle. Ever hit a windshield with a bat? You have to hit it a bunch of times to get the lamination to tear. The only saftey factor I see with tint on the windshield is visability...I could be wrong though