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Originally Posted by puckluck
Actually I do. Tinting just causes the glass to shatter and stay together and not spray all over the inside of the vehicle so it could be argued it's actually safer.
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I thought that side windows had "safety glass"- so it is supposed to just shatter into a million pieces and fall to the ground. I've never actually broken a side window on a car, but after my old car (1984) was broken into the pieces were relatively contained within the car.
My impression was that the idea was EMS workers can smack a screwdriver in the bottom corner (away from the passenger's face), the whole window would shatter but stay somewhat intact, and the EMS guy can just go through it like paper.
If I am right, I can see how a film on the window might give it that much more extra resistance to shattering.