For the following year's award, the citation included the 1970 AMXs (and Javelins) being the first production cars to use windshields that were safer, thinner, and lighter than ordinary laminated glass.[26] Developed by Corning, the glass featured a chemically hardened layer designed to give under impact and crumble into small granules to reduce injuries.[27] The inner layer has "stress raisers that will cause it to break before excessively high concussion forces can be developed in the occupant's skull."[28]