Very first car I had with this did too - a Rover P6. It wasn't electronic, but pneumatic. Allowed infinite variation between min and max.
Problem is you spend more time fiddling with it to try and get it just right as using a single wipe type. Hence, I'd guess the invention of the rain sense types.
It's possible they work very well with a brand new screen. Both my cars fitted with it were used, so didn't have 100% perfect screens.
A washing machine is not the same as your hands. Machines need hotter water as they can't scrub. For example I need 70C water for my dishwasher. Nobody needs that for hand washing dishes.
If it's a physical locking switch like most cars, then that would be impossible. If it's a momentary switch to cycle through the options etc, then resetting it is probably easier. My rear demister works in the same way.
Must have imagined sliding the 2" of snow off the screen last week then letting the auto wipers deal with it once the sensor saw water blobs instead of snow.
Can't really think why not, other than the slight risk that as laminated will break into shards that may detach from the plastic layer it poses a bigger risk than the (still piggin' sharp) bits that toughened fails to.
Fairly new car so has DLRs. The DLRs are brighter than the sides and come on when you switch the lights to "off" or "auto" with a high light level. With low light level the DLRs are switched off and headlights on, but in the state they where last used, (dipped/main). Being rural if I arrive home at night I'll be on main beam...
The side light position switches the DLRs off and sidelights on.
I've not driven in daylight fog since the occasion that the damn thing silently switched the lights off(*). Well switched to DLRs at the front but switched the rear lights and rear fogs off. IIRC visibilty was such that dipped head lights and rear lights should have been on. This was on a quiet motorway, rear fogs a good idea, so the wazzocks doing 70 plus have as much chance as possible of seeing me... (yes I do know how to switch them off and do so when visibilty is reasonable and/or there is some one following me).
(*) Of course now I know it might silently switch things off I may well select "manual".
Well clearing the snow from the screen last week they came on automagically when I pushed the snow off and water blobs were left.
They would, see the comment about them coming on with a fly splatted screen...
I think her indoors Fiesta had a sort of "learning" intermittent. With the switch in "intermittent" it remembered the interval between manual uses of the single wipe.
How absurd that personal preference for lighting is not included. What's the chances of its setting being anything like what you want?
If I get a car with DRLs, the first thing I'll do is disable them. Shining bright lights at people when it's broad daylight is beyond stupid. It does not make you more visible, it just distracts people.
What distance of visibility did you have for unlit objects?
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