Motorists can knock it off with the Nocker
The idea hit Daniel B. like a Mac truck. Or rather the snow and ice that flew off the transport and insinuated itself onto his wiper blades, leaving a streak across his windshield and Daniel fuming.
“I was driving home on a really snowy night from work,” Daniel recalls, a year later.
“A transport went by and I had to pull over and knock the blades to get the snow and ice off.”
“I went to bed and put two and two together.”
The result is the Nocker. Daniel starts to explain that the Nocker works like a choke on an outboard motor.
He then simplifies for the layman: “Basically, it’s like what you do with your hand, except this is safer than reaching out your window when you’re driving.”
Daniel has contracted with a Florida firm to promote the Nocker to manufacturers and buyers.
He envisions the technology eventually standard on every vehicle, similar to the intermittent wiper.
And the unusual spelling of the Nocker? Daniel is a mechanic, not a linguist, he explains. “Besides, it should be spelled that way,” he says. “Never mind the K.”