Driving around in the States in the summer used to result in dead bugs smashing into the front end and windshield of a car, dramatically reducing visibility.
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Driving around in the States in the summer used to result in dead bugs smashing into the front end and windshield of a car, dramatically reducing visibility. Here’s a recent story from Florida about how ‘love bug’ splatter can erode the paint on a car.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95FYHbRL7lc
In Thailand today, one can drive for hours and get only one or two windshield bug smears. This is really counterintuitive since there are soo many bugs in the environment.
I thought this was a function of technological aerodynamics — the flow of air over a car’s outer shell…until I saw this Florida ‘love bug’ story.
What’s happened to windshield bug splatter?
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