• west2seven@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    15 hours ago

    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.

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      14 hours ago

      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.