I guess it's been a couple of years since I began hearing that if you need to take a driving test for an Oklahoma driving license that the auto you use better not have a cracked windshield. A while back I had called The Oklahoma Department Of Public Safety, and asked about this policy. It seems if the driving tester deems the vehicle being used unsafe they can and will reject the test until the person being tested provides a safe vehicle. A car with a windshield crack is consider unsafe by the state.

Not a big surprise as under the old Oklahoma State, vehicle inspection program any auto or truck with a cracked windshield was a cause for it to fail the inspection. Current law on the books can cause a driver caught driving a vehicle with a cracked windshield to be ticketed.

It appears things have changed and become more strict as I did a windshield repair on a customer's auto because their daughter had been rejected from their driving test due to a chip. Now we aren't talking big chip or one in the direct driver's vision. The star on the windshield had just 3 legs and could be covered with a nickel. Location wise it was just below the center of the windshield (top to bottom) and under the driver's side of the rear view mirror.

Most likely the reason for rejecting the auto was that a chip on the windshield can crack out at anytime. While having the car rejected is an inconvenience it can take an unsafe vehicle off the road by making the owner fix the problem. In the case of a windshield chip it forces the owner to repair the windshield; saving them money over replacement and eliminating the risk of an unsafe windshield replacement.