Night driving - helping reduce headlamp glare

[Welly]

I'm in my prime* and my eyesight won't be a sharp as a youngster's but I've been having real trouble with other car's headlight glare of late.

Obviously most of the trouble is from poorly-aimed poorly fitted bulbs, dodgy HID kits in cars not meant to have them, the 'front fog' brigade (bless 'em) and now the searing light emitted from LED clusters.

So I seem to have found the answer that suits my needs.



Seat Leon's - you can piss right off with your LED headlamps.
Range Roonies - Ditto
HID 'kits' - Pah
Footbrake botherer's in queues - Pfft
Foglight Buffoon's - Meh

We use these glasses at work, they're designed to increase your vision in poorly-lit environments and I hadn't thought about trying them for night driving. They don't impede your general vision and do a great job of reducing the glare from oncoming lights, makes for much more comfort.

Downsides: they're a bit 'Ali-G' but I don't care what I look like.

Technical Stuff: Lens color: amber - absorbs blue color in the visible spectrum increasing contrasting effect. Recommended for drivers, construction workers, and airport employees in conditions of insufficient visibility.

[steve_earwig]

I've given up with the overpowered/misaligned headlamp brigade here, even if I flash them I either get no response at all or they flash me back EVEN BRIGHTER My poor bloody eyes. There's just so many of them about it's easier to just not drive at night if I can at all avoid it.

I did try some yellow glasses myself but they didn't do a thing, I presume they were crap, so I'd be interested to know how you get on with those Uvex's.

[Doggy]

Sounds like exactly what I needz too - cept I haz glasses, (being even more 'prime' than that there welters).

[Welly]

I've been getting flashed back at too FFS. I even flashed alternately my own fogs and main beams until I was so 'discomforted' I blasted the Doom's Horn of many decibels. That was the turning point really, as a good friend and Psychology writer told me; you can't change people but you can adapt to live with them....

Doggy you need yer eyez lazer'rd WCPGW etc?

Was reading on Autoshite recently and someone made an excellent observation of (what I just remember) when 'sealed beam' filament units were being changed to halogen back in the 70/80's? once everyone switches to brighter lights then we all need them so we can see too the same is happening with HID's and now LED's some of which I consider bloody dangerous to others.

Also apparently this headlight beam sharp cut-off line you see is demanded by customers for that 'premium look' whereas the manufacturers are capable of softening the line for the better of other road users but since when did Mr Financed A4 S-Line care about them?

[grasmere59]

I don't know about you guys but i also find these cars with the ultra bright led running lights sitting on your bumper very intimidating.

[Welly]

Yes so do I, the Nissan Joke have them perfectly aimed at your face probably the Nissan Squashpie too. Also Mazda seem to have jumped onto the 'who's LED's are brightest' contest recently. Them Japs must be weeing themselves in excitement over their wery blight lights.

Just when I thought I'd seen it all; this morning I was met with an oncoming 'thing' with modified HID's in the Fogs (which were on obvs) and HID's in the reflector headlamps......bloody great twat cheers for blinding me so much.

[Doggy]

Switch them off with a hammer.

(..and the lights)