Glass is a very problematic material to use in cars, mini-vans and SUVs. Even with safety glass it can cause issues and increase injuries. If you have ever been in an accident, ran up to help someone who had or seen a vehicle that had been in an accident afterwards you know the serious nature of glass and the damage it can cause to flesh and bone mortals.

Glass of course does have many good properties as well; it is transparent, hard and can be easily molded when manufactured. Of course the unfortunate properties include brittleness and jagged edges when it fails. In the future we will not have to worry about injuries caused by glass in traffic accidents, SUV rollovers or falling trees.

Why not you ask? Because Carbon Nanotube sheets can be made so thin that they will be transparent and you can see through them. They will also be somewhat flexible allowing for impact without major injury. These windshields will be 50 times stronger than steel and harder than glass, but they will not be brittle and will not break.

Additionally carbon nanotube windshields will be light-weight and the average car has up to 400 pounds of glass on it. By lowering the cars weight you increase its performance and gas mileage and can even put a smaller motor in the car and thus use even less fuel still. Think on this in 2006.

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