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Rain-sensing wipers create deadly visibility gaps in heavy downpours by prioritizing convenience over safety, failing to clear oil-water film fast enough.

The origins of even the simplest technology are sometimes best remembered not for the ingenuity of the inventor’s imagination but rather for the endless legal disputes it engendered. In the annals of ...

Windshield wipers are such a simple little thing on the front of your windshield, that it can be easy to underestimate their importance—that is until you get stuck in a rainstorm. In bad weather ...

Robert Kearns, an American engineer, was thoroughly fed up with windscreen wipers. His 1962 Ford Galaxie 500 convertible, like most cars of the era, had two-speed wipers; one setting was a fairly ...

Who among us hasn’t dreamed of having some brainstorm idea, prototyping it, and then have some huge company put it into worldwide production? The problem is, that’s not really as easy as it sounds in ...