Why Some Windshields Have A Blue Tint At The Top

Why Some Windshields Have A Blue Tint At The Top

Once commonplace, the band of blue-tinted glass is rarely seen at the top of new car windshields now. But what was it there for in the first place?

Why Windshields Have A Blue Tint At The Top

Bill Oxford/Getty Images Modern automobiles are packed to the gunwales with subtle features that are designed to improve the driver and passengers’ comfort and safety while being as unobtrusive as possible. In ye olden days these things were more obvious — the driver-facing, fender-mounted turn signal indicators on 70s-era land yachts, for example, or power retractable radio antennas — but today stuff like this is so built-in and automated as t…