have you ever seen what broken car window looks like?

So I've talked about the whole "in the movies no one ever steals a car with the empty gas tank light on" thing.  Here is another question along the same line.  When someone steals a car why do they always break the driver's side window?  Who wants to sit on broken glass while they are fleeing the scene?  Car windows break into big pieces and little pebble pieces, why would somebody want to sit on a bunch of pebbles that have sharp edges?

Here is the situation; bad thing chasing you in big concrete parking ramp, you see a suitable car for your escape, you break the driver side window and hotwire that shit, go down the spiral exit slide, big car the bad things picked to chase you follows you down the slide, break through the striped stick gate, get on the highway and gun it, bad follows, chase starts and you realize the gas light is on, they start gaining on you, your stolen vehicle runs out of gas, you have to pull over and get out of your car and start running, whatever is chasing you simply runs you over, evil wins.  I doubt this situation will ever get filmed