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A Rivian Fender Bender Cost $42,000. Its CEO Says That Should Never Happen
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Did you know shatter resistant glass exists? Like your windshield for example. The issue is plastic is cheap and easy to manufacture and nothing else.
Tempered glass is very hard to mold into a complex shape. Those plastic headlights shrouds are much cheaper to replace, it's the internals that are expensive.
Also that plastic you can just polish and they're like new.
Windshield are actually a composite of two glass layers and an inner plastic layer.