Supercar company wants to do away with old-school windshield wipers

McLaren, the British company famous for its supercars and its involvement with Formula One racing, is focusing on fine-tuning the details: windshield wipers, to be exact. The company is reportedly working on a windshield wiper system that would make physical wipers obsolete.

LIKE wind-up windows and ashtrays, the humble windscreen wiper is soon to be erased from modern cars. Britain’s most advanced car company is working on secret plans to dispose of the windscreen wiper — an archaic throwback to the early days of the automobile. According to McLaren, the firm that builds supercars for the road and Formula One cars for the track, the new system is adapted from fighter jets.