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  Global Windshield Market For Automotive: Overview Glass plays an important role in the ability of the vehicle to offer safety and security to its occupants. Automotive glass can improve the safety and security of the occupants in several other ways in addition to its traditional characteristics. Traditionally, the windshield provides a significant amount of strength to the cabin of the vehicle. For instance, in a head-on collision, the windshield market provides up to 45% of structural integrity to the cabin of the vehicle, while in a rollover, the structural integrity is up to 60%. The windshield is an integral part of the safety restraint system in the vehicle. It keeps the roof from crushing in on the occupants in a rollover, it allows the airbags to deploy in the correct position to cushion passengers, and prevents passengers from being ejected in a serious collision. In a similar way, tempered glass is treated in order to achieve higher resistance to breakage than simple an...