This morning it decided to rain and rain a lot. I am the type of person who normally loves rain, but driving in rain is the hard part. I have come to a couple of conclusions after driving in the rain today.
1. Windshield wipers suck.
2. The freeway has a good part and a bad part.
Why do windshield wipers suck? Well because they have three speeds: super slow, regular, and super fast. Super slow is the one that goes up and down, hesitates for 30 seconds and then goes again. This is the perfect speed for a light drizzle; the kind that you barely even feel when you are walking in it. Regular goes up and down, hesitates for a half a second, and goes again. Regular is perfect for the heavier rain when you are driving on the road or on the good part of the freeway (more on that later in this post). Super fast goes up and down repeatedly without ever hesitating. this one is perfect for the bad part of the freeway. The problem is that there is a down pour that lighter than heavy rain and heavier than a light drizzle. The super slow speed doesn't clear the windshield fast enough. The regular speed clears it so fast that the wipers drag across the windshield. There needs to be a slow speed that hesitates for five seconds.
The freeway has a good part and a bad part. The good part is asphalt that somehow absorbs the rain. You can't even tell that it's raining there except for what is falling on your windshield from the sky. The bad part of the freeway is mad of some concrete or something that lets the rain build on top of it so that as you are driving, the cars in front of you push more rain onto your windshield. This causes you to basically be blind. They should make the freeway all the asphalty stuff that absorbs the rain.
I have three solutions that would make driving in rain better. The first would be to make more windshield wiper speeds. The second would be to make all the freeway the same thing. The last would be to put an umbrella on the top of cars to keep the rain from falling onto them. Then we would just have to worry about the kickback but if the freeway was fixed, then that wouldn't matter. I like the umbrella idea the best.
