Windscreen wipers are now old hat

The new kids on the block are Lasers :grimacing: Tesla has applied for patents to replace wipers with lasers :open_mouth: What could possibly go wrong with lasers pointed at the windscreen & powerful enough to boil rain water away :open_mouth: :grimacing: electrek.co/2021/09/08/tesla-pa … ld-wipers/

EV makers desperately looking for laughable solutions to the problem of battery capacity when all the ancilliaries heating, wipers and lights are switched on like on a cold and snowing winter night.
All paid for at 16p per kwh and the equivalent of road fuel duty and 20% VAT, for the privilege of being stranded run out of charge before reaching your destination.

Imagine a street full of these, on a foggy and rainy night, lasers slapping - the light show would put Pink Floyd’s in the shade. Star Wars, eat your heart out, the light sabre cometh.

fodenway:
Imagine a street full of these, on a foggy and rainy night, lasers slapping - the light show would put Pink Floyd’s in the shade. Star Wars, eat your heart out, the light sabre cometh.

LOL I think Elon is morphing into a James Bond super villain :grimacing: He’s already patented cold gas thrusters that he uses on the SpaceX rockets for the 2.0 Tesla Roadster :open_mouth:
He has them positioned on the rear for forward propulsion bursts of speed & on the n/s & o/s front corners of the car :open_mouth: It’ll be able to take corners like the vehicles in the ‘Tron’ films. LOL