Glad to be of service.
Although I did spend the better part of a decade living in Maine, so I’ve been there, done that, and have the T-shirt.
Depends on if you’re talking snow or ice. Snow’s easy, ice not so much.
Oh, and keep one of those ice scraper thingies in the house too. It’s even harder to clean the ice off your vehicle if the only scraper you have is stuck inside the thing, as Owls found out one morning when his doors were frozen shut:smack:
Good for you.
20 minutes to warm the car and get every bit of snow and ice that I can off every window, the hood, the roof, the lights, the trunk and spoiler. 20 minutes because I usually can’t find good gloves and need to take a break to warm up. My car looks almost like it’s been in the garage during the bad weather after I am done cleaning everything off of it. Here it often tends to ice then snow then sometimes ice again so it’s not like it’s just quickly brushing a bit of snow off, and I want it all gone.
Wow, you got fancy.
In my family, we just bought plastic tablecloths that had the fuzzy backing. Put it over your windshield behind the wipers, fuzzy side down, roll down your front windows and tuck it in before rolling the windows back up. The plastic keeps the fuzzy from getting wet, the fuzzy keeps it from sticking to the windshield.
That being said, yeah, people who don’t at least try to clear their cars off are dangerous. So are people who don’t turn their lights on when it’s raining or really overcast. I don’t care if it’s noon, it’s dark out! Put your headlights on! And I wish someone could figure out an easy way to clean off a semi’s roofs. It’s terrifying to see a sheet lift off one of those.
Nowadays, I have an attached garage. I love having a garage (never had one before). I never have to clean the car off in the morning, and I never get cold and wet getting into it. 
Or the douchebag who doesn’t clear the snow off the ledge in front of the license plate, then hits your car on the street and drives off, with you fuming impotently because you can’t read his license plate.
The only real compensation for drivers who won’t clear their cars properly (front, top AND back) is that at least once per season I’ll see one of these tools come to a stop and the entire six inches of snow on top of the car will slide onto their front or back window.
I use a tarp. Works fine.
No. They might take me out in the process.
How 'bout their car won’t start until they clear their windows, remove the floes from the vehicle roof and trunk, but if they turn the key the third time, without trying to do so, THEN the vehicle instantly vaporizes without heating any nearby vehicles or structures?
What - you can’t take one for the team?
Selfish bastard.
On a related note. Turn on your fucking lights in heavy rain and snow storms. I want to be able to see your fucking car so I don’t, you know, slam in to it.
That is one of my biggest fucking pet peeves.
I try hard to clean off my Jeep but I am 5’ 2" and there are times I just can’t get all the snow off the top even with my extended snow brush 
And to top it off my Jeep has no heat right now. There is enough barely warm air to defrost the windshield and I have rear defrost but it is not enough to heat the truck. It is like driving around in a damn freezer.
All of your “solutions” notwithstanding, the only real solution is for people to take responsibility for themselves. The people who do this are probably the same people who don’t signal when they’re turning, and refuse to turn their lights on in bad weather, and text-messaging while they drive. They think they’re immune to the consequences of their inactions, and if they cause an accident they can always blame the other guy.
A few years ago my grandma gave me one of these for Xmas. I sure wish I could remember where I put it. 
You know, the whole lot of you are [censored, just in case this is one of those weird-ass NON-PIT RULES APPLY threads].
Yes, you break sharply and it all goes “flob” down onto the windshield, just when you needed to see what’s going on.
Next time you take the time to clear it off first.
One morning I was driving my truck down the highway and this car behind me starts honking and flashing their lights, so I stop, thinking they may need help. Out gets this attractive blonde woman and start to tear me a new one about how all the snow is falling out of the back of my truck.
I explained to her "Lady, this is Canada, and this is the salt truck!
Yep, breaking the windshield will teach you!
I don’t think some of the people recommending cardboard and tarps have spent much time living in a really cold climate. Up here, all you’re going to do is ice weld that shit to your windshield. – that’s if you can get to it after you shovel and chisel through the 8 or 10 inches of hard packed ice and snow lying on top of it.
I got ticketed once for doing the little hole thing. It was a long time ago – like in the late 80’s. I was perpetually broke and didn’t have a scraper. I didn’t like driving that way. It was nerve wracking.
Yeah, cardboard won’t work here. That would be interesting, in an ice storm. peel RIIIP! cardboard sticks to car Plus, it does take more than 20 minutes to clean your car, and the surroundings, if you have over a foot of snow. When we had three feet of snow* all in one 24 hour period it took me almost an hour to clean it.
*Seriously. It was last Valentine’s Day and sedan’s tires were buried. It was something amazing. But a PITA.
You don’t need any fancy brush or scraper, either - I always use the $1.99 special you can find anywhere; it works just fine, and I don’t care much if I forget it on top of my car and drive away.
Maybe I need a new thread but are there any options (no matter how ungodly expensive) for like heated driveways or something.
The University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon had heated sidewalks, if I remember correctly. I’m sure you could heat a driveway if you really wanted to.
On a related note, I’ve been thinking for awhile that Canada needs to start making a car specifically for Canada - there are too many flaws in cars not made for these conditions. We make do, but we can do much better.