Jack Drives: Prescription Windscreens

By Jack Worboys.

This month, I was keen to move away from my usual car review because my attention has been caught by, surely what must be, a revolutionary development in automotive glazing.

Many of the drivers among you will know the inconvenience of constantly having to swap your glasses or needing to remember to bring along a different pair for driving. It looks like those days will soon be over because FutureTech Glass has successfully launched its first prescription windscreen, an Optimised Optical Personal Screen, known as OOPS.

The ingenious creation has been the result of pioneering research and development from the company’s stateof-the-art factory, based in Braintree, Essex and will be avilable to consumers from April 1st.

Researching the curvature of corrective spectacles for myopia (short sightedness) led FutureTech Glass to successfully develop a windscreen which can be curved to match an individual’s ophthalmic prescription. The resulting prescription windscreen, Polarfilo, will ensure that UK drivers will never have to risk driving illegally without their glasses again. Elton Barker, FutureTech Glass Sales and Marketing Director said: “We’re delighted with this breakthrough development. FutureTech is at the forefront of innovation in the automotive glazing marketplace and this latest development - Polarfilo , the prescription windscreen - is one of our best. The benefits to drivers are numerous. Not only will cars fitted with the new prescription windscreen help keep glasses wearers safe and legal on our roads but it could potentially lead to a reduction in vehicle theft. We anticipate the Polarfilo windscreen will be a success and we’re currently researching and developing a vari-focal windscreen too.”

Every car fitted with the Future Tech Glass prescription windscreen comes with a car kit of special cleaner and oversized cleaning cloth.

This really is an exciting breakthrough, but whether or not the idea takes off will be down to the price point. Let’s hope this becomes common place over the coming years and is not a ‘poor silly fad’.