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> I've noticed in the past year or two my windshield is much, much cleaner post drive whereas years ago I would almost be forced to clean my car after each trip

• jacobush 8y ago
  No. You could see them before hitting the windshield. Unless modern windshields have a Star Trek deflector shield, that's not it.
• NeedMoreTea 8y ago
  Only an anecdote, but I'm going to say no. Mainly as I have strongly experienced the same phenomena motorcycling. My head and helmet are not changed aerodynamically. A naked bike contributes little. Yet headlight and visor catch far fewer than 30 years ago. I don't expect to break the journey to clear it like I used to. The windscreen on the car may very well catch less, but in that case it also seems like there are a lot less to catch.
• DanTheManPR 8y ago
  Anecdotally: my uncle has been driving an '88 Oldsmobile Cutlass for the last 30 years. I remember riding in that car as a kid, and him giving me an uncle-y lecture about how when your windshield is caked with bugs, you don't want to run the wipers, because it will just smear them all around and make it hard to see. He then demonstrated that to me, something I remember vividly (we stopped at a gas station shortly after to wipe them off with a squeegee). Last summer, driving on that same road by the lake, same time in the early evening, I commented on some of the bugpocalypse stories I had read. He hadn't really thought about it before, but his Cutlass' windshield was dramatically cleaner than the night I remember in the early 90's.