[Christ]

It's kind of a thing I've been thinking of since both of our cars have wipers which cross over each other when parked... they sit on the windshield like this:

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Where most people's wipers sit like this:

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My question is this:

If the wipers are overlapped, when they are fully extended (wiper motor at 180* from park), they're nearly straight up and down on either side of the windshield.

Would it be aerodynamically "cleaner" to have them park in the upright position like this? (Covering them notwithstanding.) Than to have them in the OEM configuration, proverbially "in the way" of flow.

So, when parked, they would sit like this:

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On either side of the windshield.