Auto Windshields as a Third Screen: HUD Displays
As vehicle dashboards and center console screens fill with more digital buttons, switches, and indicators, carmakers feel like they’re running out of space. The Detroit Auto Show earlier this year showcased new technology that essentially turns an auto’s windshield into…
Modern Car Technology is a Target for Hackers
Automotive cybercrime is becoming more of a problem as the technology in vehicles makes its way toward completely autonomous. An in-car computer system controls things such as anti-lock breaking and skid-detection. If an in-car computer system is connected to the…
Auto Glass and Insurance: How does it work? Part 3
Over the last two weeks, we’ve talked about how auto insurance rates are calculated. Now we’ll bring it all together with Part 3 and talk about what an auto glass claim will do to your insurance rates. If you’ve ever been…
Auto Glass and Insurance: How does it work? Part 2
Last week in Part 1 of our series, we talked about why it can be so difficult to understand how your insurance rates are calculated. This week, we continue our discussion of auto insurance rates and suggest why your rates may be high,…
Auto Glass and Insurance: How does it work? Part 1
At Suncoast Auto Glass, many customers ask us if filing an auto glass claim will make their insurance premiums go up. For a lot of people, the process of insurance, from quote to claim, is confusing and mysterious. This is…
GM Plans to Expand in Emerging Markets
General Motors (GM) plans to invest $5 million over the next few years to boost vehicle production in Brazil, China, India, and Mexico. These new technology-rich compact and sub-compact cars will replace several unrelated models in an effort to consolidate vehicle…
Summer Heat Exacerbates Windshield Chips
A windshield chip or crack is no fun regardless of the season. A crack in summer is especially bad, though, as the sweltering temperatures outside mixed with cold AC inside can wreak havoc on your windshield. As your auto and windshield…
Plastic Roads May be Piloted in Southern Holland
The Dutch company VolkerWessels has developed a plastic road made from melted down, recycled plastic bottles that it plans to pilot in Rotterdam, a city in southern Holland. VolkerWessels says that the new road is easier to install, more reliable,…
Rain-X Windshield Treatment Pros and Cons
Rain-X and other similar products, such as Aquapel, are made of a hydrophobic (water-repelling) silicone polymer commonly applied to auto windshields. Essentially, it coats the glass in a substance that repels water. Many people report that Rain-X eliminate the need to…
Quick Tips to Clean Mayflies and other Bugs from Your Windshield
Florida has no shortage of bugs that seem inexorably attracted to our windshields. Mayflies, love bugs, dragonflies, gnats, you name it, they end up as smudges that obscure the driver’s vision and create messy smears under windshield wipers. In a…