Dear experts--

     Since I know nothing whatsoever about automotive window glass, I
     figure I can ask a stupid questions without embarrassment.

     I guess I know the difference between tempered and laminated glass,
     but I don't know which one is standard now and which one is likely to
     be the standard in the future.  Which one is my 1992 Geo Prizm likely
     to have?  I have no problem with breakage, etc., but I AM having
     trouble with scoring, presumably from stuff in the air  This is now
     really reducing visibility, particularly when driving into the sun.
     The little car just turned 100,000 miles (the first car I have had
     that has lived that long), but I intend to keep using it until it
     dies.

     Is there anything that can be done to fix the scoring?  Is there some
     type of glass that is less vulnerable to that that I can try to get
     for the next car (which I hope will be some distance down the line,
     when I have the money to pay for it)?

     My favorite car was a "Metallic Burgundy" 1959 Oldsmobile 98 hardtop
     that we inherited from my mother-in-law in the 1970s when it had
     16,000 miles on it.  Now THAT was a windshield--wrap around and huge!
     The car didn't have seat belts, of course.  I hate to think what would
     have happened if any of us had hit the windshield in that one.

     Happy New Year to all.

     Marilyn