In the past, laminated glass was usually installed in the windshield, with side and rear windows being tempered only.

The difference is that tempered glass is per-stressed so that when it cracks, it shatters into many tiny and dull pieces. Laminated is the same thing, but with layers of plastic sandwiched with layers of tempered glass. Laminated glass will still shatter, but will be held together by the plastic layers.

In an emergency, small improvised, or purpose built tools meant to shatter tempered glass will be useless if the glass is laminated.

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    8 months ago

    I still blame Jeep for thinking a rotating selector was a good idea for a gear shifter. RIP Anton Yelchin.

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      8 months ago

      I thought his jeep issue was that P on the dial didn’t actually guarantee the parking pawl was engaged to stop it from rolling. Separate from the lack of positive engagement with the P position, more about the physical disconnect between the two. Unless that was just the non-offensive language version of “user didn’t turn the dial all the way and our polite warning chime was too polite”

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      8 months ago

      At least you can still feel the rotating Jeep shitty gear selector.

      Touchscreen controls on a Tesla have no feel or feedback. It’s a touchscreen.