While cars like the Citroën SM had early versions of this technology, it was Cadillacs in 1996 that came with the first ...
Robert Kearns, PhD (CIT '64), attributed his invention of the intermittent windshield wiper to a wedding night accident: As he was opening a champagne bottle in his hotel room, the cork flew off and ...
Signs that a wiper motor is about to fail include slow or intermittent operation, wipers that will operate at only one speed, or arms that stop in the middle of the windshield when turned off.
As much as I love my 2022 Kia Soul, I do spend a lot of time when it's raining dicking around with the right-hand control stalk trying to find the right speed for the intermittent wipers.