Hot Shot

Well this is a pretty spiffy idea! The new Cadillac DTS will get a feature us Northern folks have been imagining in our heads each winter for our entire car driving lives, while scratching, brushing, and scraping away at ice-glazed windshields until our fingers look like tiny bright red sausages.

The new Caddy will feature a windshield-washer system that heats the fluid to 176 degrees in less than 40 seconds, then shoots it across the windshield. Along with the wipers, the scorching liquid clears snow and ice from the windshield within just a couple of wipes.

Just this once I’d almost consider buying outside my demographic (and most certainly outside of my price range) just to get my frost bitten hands on this brilliant new system. Or to save money maybe I can just start boiling a pot of water every day and pouring it on my windshield. What could possibly go wrong?