![]() That will have an adverse impact on sales.įord stands out as being uniquely focused on meeting both the weight and safety requirements of new car buyers. This suggests that-while dropping weight is important-buyers likely won’t accept the related increased damage risk if they are made aware of it. Those that have experienced hail or simply had to replace a windshield due to rock damage are likely to prefer cars that are better protected against this damage. Unfortunately, even though this same testing showcases that with hardened glass like Gorilla Glass you can effectively have both thinner/lighter glass and glass that is more resilient, it appears that many of the car makers may not take that route because it is costlier. With current windshield design methods, however-as you would expect- thinner laminated glass results in more vulnerability to objects hitting the windshield, not less according to SAE testing. There has been an effort to reduce weight for both traditional combustion engine and environmentally friendly electric vehicles. Other than Tesla, whose cars are too expensive for most, electric cars have near pathetic ranges, which substantially reduce their sales. Electric cars aren’t immune either, as they move to increase ranges. The car companies and internal combustion engines are under a pretty heavy mandate to increase gas mileage or face reduced sales-particularly against a coming wave of electric cars. A misguided attempt to reduce weight is apparently making windshields potentially more vulnerable to damage. However, we are also in real danger of actually making things worse. We put hardened Gorilla Glass on our Smartphones why don’t we use it on windshields? Let’s answer that question this week and confirm that it’s coming, so your car may be able to shrug off most hail in the near future. Costing from $600 to over $1,000, windshield replacement isn’t a cheap date and when one of these storms hits it can overwhelm repair shop as it did here. Fortunately, we got the survivable small stuff-but in other parts of the country golf ball sized hail has turned cars’ windshields into Swiss cheese and the water damage on top of that likely had a lot of folks discovering that their cars are totaled, and they don’t have enough money from insurance to buy a new one or that their deductible is biting them sharply in the pocket book. Where I live it was so thick it looked like snow. ![]() Tulsa Police Department shared on Twitter that the damage is "significant," and said in a subsequent Tweet that the city issued a proclamation declaring Tulsa as a "disaster area.We’ve been having some really nasty hail storms of late. The brunt of the Saturday storm appears to have hit the Tulsa area the hardest, according to city officials. ![]() The severe weather is the latest in the onslaught of storms that have battered Oklahoma and parts of the southern United States over the past week. A utility company spokesman in the state told Newsweek it was the "most powerful thunderstorm I've ever seen." As of Sunday evening, at least 20 counties had reported damage, according to local media reports. Videos shared to social media on Sunday show the storm's aftermath such as downed trees and powerlines in addition to debris from ripped roofs and siding and collapsed structures. Tornados, ginormous hail and high winds walloped parts of Oklahoma, causing widespread damage and leaving hundreds of thousands of people without power amid scorching June heat.
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