In the past, laminated glass was usually installed in the windshield, with side and rear windows being tempered only.

The difference is that tempered glass is per-stressed so that when it cracks, it shatters into many tiny and dull pieces. Laminated is the same thing, but with layers of plastic sandwiched with layers of tempered glass. Laminated glass will still shatter, but will be held together by the plastic layers.

In an emergency, small improvised, or purpose built tools meant to shatter tempered glass will be useless if the glass is laminated.

  • intensely_human
    37·
    8 months ago

    One time I was climbing a rock in a park in Illinois, and reached up into a pile of finely-ground glass.

    I managed to pick all but one little piece out of my fingers. That one piece was so far in I couldn’t get it.

    Later on, I couldn’t find it. So I figured it had come out.

    But a few weeks later my palm itched and that fucking piece of glass poked its way out of my palm.