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Originally Posted by California98Civic
Point taken, but the Precept also featured a cowl for the wipers, no? That's what I see in the images on ecomodder:
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The car was tested with wipers.They showed zero on the load cells.I can't tell you why they did the cowl cover.
GM has had 'hidden windshield wipers' on production cars dating to perhaps the late 1960s.
Typically,the wipers are embedded within the stagnation bubble which resides at the windshield base.The air just skips over this region.You'll see it in hundreds of wind tunnel smoke photos.
Here's the caveat: if you live in Europe and have access to the Autobahn or Autostrada,or race at LeMans,etc.,during inclement weather,when the wipers are running and away from their stowed position,it has been seen where the airflow at these elevated velocities can easily lift the wipers off the glass.And you may notice that cars like Porsche will rivet foils to the wiper arms to spoil this lifting.
Event horizons at these speeds are very brief.You better be able to see where your going,and what traffic around you is doing.
As to the Precept,it was designed by stylists.Perhaps it was 'retro'.