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aerohead · 11-10-2021, 01:50 PM

* Hucho gets into this in his chapter on drag optimization. I left the book in the car and don't have that with me.
* As with all the body areas addressed, windshield inclination also indicates for 'saturation' at a particular angle.
* Light refraction is also part of the calculus. At some specific glass angle, the outward vision becomes a 'county fair, house-of-mirrors, optical fantasmagoria', and a danger ( the 1981 VW ARVW research vehicle was reported by one auto journalist who drove the car, to possess such vision difficulties that he struggled to drive it ).
* In the 1980s, Mitsubishi constructed a 'future car' of which, in autonomous mode, the front seats fully reclined, driver napped, while the roof fully lowered into the body, to cut drag.

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aerohead Master EcoModder Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Sanger,Texas,U.S.A. Posts: 15,914 Thanks: 24,000 Thanked 7,227 Times in 4,654 Posts	windshield rake angle * Hucho gets into this in his chapter on drag optimization. I left the book in the car and don't have that with me. * As with all the body areas addressed, windshield inclination also indicates for 'saturation' at a particular angle. * Light refraction is also part of the calculus. At some specific glass angle, the outward vision becomes a 'county fair, house-of-mirrors, optical fantasmagoria', and a danger ( the 1981 VW ARVW research vehicle was reported by one auto journalist who drove the car, to possess such vision difficulties that he struggled to drive it ). * In the 1980s, Mitsubishi constructed a 'future car' of which, in autonomous mode, the front seats fully reclined, driver napped, while the roof fully lowered into the body, to cut drag. __________________ Photobucket album: http://s1271.photobucket.com/albums/jj622/aerohead2/