Many of us have been in this scenario: driving down the road in the rain, you turn on your windshield wipers only to have them do an inadequate job clearing your field of view. Perhaps the wiper is ...

Windshield wipers are powered by a small electric motor, usually mounted on the firewall or under the cowl (the area under the windshield’s base). The motor activates linkage that moves the wiper arms ...

Anyone, and I mean anyone, who has ever driven in the rain in a vehicle that is equipped with vacuum-operated wipers knows they are pretty much useless. Perhaps the only thing that could be worse ...