• Tinted windows Tinted windows Being a driver for more than a year now I’ve learned more and more about vehicles. I’ve noticed that more and more of the drivers at my school are getting cited for illegal tint on
• Tinted windows
Tinted windows
Being a driver for more than a year now I’ve learned more and more about vehicles.
I’ve noticed that more and more of the drivers at my school are getting cited for illegal tint on their vehicle windows. The legal tint for vehicle windows is currently thirty-five percent, meaning that thirty-five percent of sun light is passed through the window. What I don’t understand is why is tint on windows such a big deal? Tint less than thirty-five percent on the side windows doesn’t impair sight as much as it is said to be.
A lot of my fiends have tint on their vehicles that are twenty percent. Twenty percent tint isn’t that bad considering the amount of light that is let into the vehicle. Even at night, twenty percent tint on windows still doesn’t impair sight.
However, five percent tint and even two-and-a-half percent tint is going a bit too far. At night, looking through two-and-a-half percent tint is nearly impossible without any light on the other side of the window. I can understand why people with that amount of tint on their windows are sighted.
Although the drivers of Kaua‘i with illegal tint are beginning to be cited and ticketed, I don’t think that the legal minimum of thirty-five percent is a legitimate law. I definitely will agree with others whom also think that the tint law is taken too far.
Bryan Hayashi
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