Quotes about windshield (16 Quotes)


    Wow I passed a lot of trucks. It's tough to pass, but it's exciting to make some passes here too. From my windshield I saw a lot of exciting stuff going on and from my mirror I saw some exciting stuff going on. I don't know if it was just me, but it was one heck of a race going on out here.

    Oh, man, Phil thought I was in deep st after I smashed the windshield driving through a soccer goal, but the next day when it was time to take the rental car back, Rake Yohn thought it would be funny to set the AM radio on fire. Well, the whole car blew the fk up forty seconds from my house, and the only thing I had to pay was the nine bucks for the extra insurance.

    The power technology in lamps and windshield wipers today are really quite sophisticated. It is under the control of the microcontroller, which tells it how much power to allow. Rather than just turn on, it says 'I know this load on this lamp to be 4A,' and if the load exceeds that value, the lamp will turn off immediately. A traditional relay control would just turn it on, despite the short, and would burn up. Then you would have to buy all kinds of expensive pieces instead of replacing a bulb or a small wire.

    They had a verbal altercation. We believe Escalante-Mendoza went outside and got into a car. As his brother was standing near the driver's side door, there were three shots fired through the windshield and one through the passenger door.



    I went and looked out my door and he's got a big old brick banging and smashing my windshield in and I opened my door and yelled at him, 'hey' but he just looked crazy so I slammed the door and locked it, called 9-1-1 and I went for my gun.


    I think, certainly when some of that flies off, particularly on the highway, that can certainly be a concern. It can be on local roads, too, ... It can strike a car windshield or a pedestrian. I think it is a concern.


    One day I was driving between Canon City and Dodge City, Kan., and I conducted a windshield survey on salt cedar trees. Based on an average width I conservatively estimated that those trees would drink 700,000 billion gallons a year.



    Had there been a car back there, this coupling is heavy enough to have gone through the windshield and caused serious injury, possibly even death to the occupants of that vehicle.

    It's really bad for a number of reasons. Number one, if you have a child in the front seat period, an airbag deployed can kill the infant. And even if you are in a minor crash, what happens to a child not buckled down securely is that it becomes a projectile and could hit the steering wheel, the windshield, anything. Even if you just make a sudden stop, the child can fly from your lap.

    Her blood sugar went really low and she had a diabetic seizure. She ran into a car and then continued for almost a mile. My other daughter was pulling the wheel trying to avoid hitting on coming traffic. The older daughter had to get staples in her head because she hit the windshield and the air bags went off, my other daughter has a concussion and a bump in her head.

    It's just the way the chips fall. We try to get here every year. Sometimes you're the bug, sometimes you're the windshield. That's the way it works in this business.



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