Night driving

[horselady]

Has anyone tried those night vision glasses? I've seen them advertised, sort of yellow coloured ones,
but do they work?

I have to drive along a nightmare of a country lane every night, twisty, no lighting at all but very busy with commuter traffic. There are points when I get completely blinded by oncoming headlights and someone's headlights in my rear view mirror at the same time, even my husband who is a professional driver out on the roads all day says it's a bad road so it's not just me being a "woman driver" Anyone tried the glasses?

[vandersam]

Surely if you were wearing nightvision goggles for driving then you would be even more (permanently) blinded by oncming headlights. I have worn a pair of these and any sudden bright light is exruciatingly painful on the eyes.

[Barmaid]

horselady - I had this problem, found it extremely difficult to see at night because of being blinded. Turned out my eyes were having difficulty with the lights because my eyesight was degenerating and they were oversensitive to light. A pair of new glasses later and all is fine!

[horselady]

Thanks barmaid, I appreciate what you are saying but it is only this one particular lane that causes me problems, I drive home through 2 towns then turn onto the "nightmare" I did think it was just my eyes until hubby said when he was driving "God this is a sh*t awful road" just looking for some solution, roll on summer nights!

[Panic Button]

I don't think the night vision glasses have anything to do with avoiding dazzle, they are to do with helping you to define things in low light.

Your natural instinct is to look at the lights that are dazzling you, a bit like a rabbit. This leads to temporary loss of sensitivity of the centre of the retina.

Try forcing yourself to look to one side of the lights, making a conscious effort to overrule your instinct.

That way, when the lights have passed, the most important area of your vision will have been preserved.

[Panic Button]

I presume your are dipping your rear view mirror?

[funnygirl]

I had a pair as I too hate driving at night.
They did nothing for me, except made everything yellow!!

I still have not found a satifactory solution.

[horselady]

Thanks everyone. I shall not bother to buy a pair, sounds as though I would be wasting my money. Panic button, yes i do dip the mirror and I do what I remember being taught when learning to drive, a very long time ago, which is to look at the nearside kerb (or in this case, grass verge)when something comes towards me. it's just something I'll have to put up with, didn't help last night when an idiot in a tractor came round the bend with a sort of floodlight thing on the roof of his cab, nearly hit the hedge then I can tell you!

[McNoodle]

With a name like horselady, and describing your drive home, I bet you live somewhere really nice!

[BillyBB]

They are 'supposed to' increase contrast by filtering out blue light. Only really any use at dusk.

[Ice.Maiden]

Perhaps a good pair of sunglasses, that don't distort the vision, might help?

[horselady]

McNoodle, yes I do live in a nice village it's true. This is our first winter there and we are just beginning to realise how low the temperature dips at noght and how dark the roads are around there!

Not complaining really though, you can't have it all ways and we do love it.

[McNoodle]

Thought so. These are the prices you pay then it seems - you could live in town in a terrace where there are loads of streetlamps and your neighbours proximity helps keep the heat in! ;-)

[RevFunk]

What about headlights instead lol