Or the front windscreen could show you all a movie while you are travelling.
Sad to say we need them, it seems we can't work out for ourselves that parking in a disabled spot or halfway across the pavement is mean and selfish and we need the threat of a £60 fine and a tacky patch of windscreen to show us the light.
Parked close around the hall, there were Toyota Priuses and Mercedes E Classes, their private hire stickers showing in their rear windscreens.
Le Mans, an event founded in 1923 as a way of showing potential customers that your headlamps, windscreen wipers and canvas hoods could function at high speed around the clock, remains an effective shop window for major motor manufacturers.
The hi-res pic came after someone uploaded a pair of pictures that appear to be the new Batmobile from different angles, including one that shows its windscreen splitting apart to reveal the cockpit.
Possible uses include navigation data shown on vehicle windscreens and adverts shown on windows.
This panel is now in two layers, so the displays seem suspended in space; another information option, replicated on the optional (and slightly distorted) head-up display on the windscreen in front of the driver, shows if, and by how much, the battery is being charged, which alters dramatically as you move the accelerator.
For example, a Mercedes concept unveiled earlier this year and known as Dice allowed drivers to conjure up information about passing places of interest by merely pointing at them while friends driving past the car show up as an icon on the windscreen, alongside their social network status.
The situation escalated after protesters threw paint on the windscreens and started rocking the vehicles, Local news reports showed footage of badly beaten protesters, including Mr Lutsenko.
And a Red Crescent driver who gave me a guided tour of the battlefield in his ambulance showed me several bullet holes, including one in the windscreen.
The footage above shows a motorcyclist jump on a blue BMW and punch the windscreen before slamming his left fist down on the hood.
