wiper

The circuitry that makes them move includes motors typically used to power windshield wipers.

A wiper attack that infects computer networks and destroys data with no hope of reversal is even more serious.

First Brands sells billions of dollars worth of parts including oil filters and windshield wipers annually to customers such as Walmart.

American auto companies have long relied on China for the magnets, which are essential for making everything from electric motors to headlights and windshield wipers.

Technology like this is very different from the car industry, where, often, the brakes are made in one country, the windscreen wipers or door handles in another, and everything is assembled in a third.