night driving difficulties

squirrelchops

I have my vision checked annually as I wear contact lenses and have good vision. I have driven for over 18 years without incident (touch wood) and currently drive approx 600 miles a week but I aboslutely hate driving in the dark.

I too find some lights on other cars so bright. I have turned my rear mirror down and yet have still had cars with brights lights so far up my !!!! that light has literally been flooding into my car. As for the idiots who have their front fogs on all the time, well that is another story.

I have put slighlty brighter bulbs in my own car as was convinced it was my poor lights that stopped me from seeing the road sufficiently but now feel it is the temporary blindness I get from other cars that is impeding my night driving.

It has been useful to hear all the tips on night driving. I am considering having some lessons to help me with it now though as I feel I am getting more and more anxious about night driving.

mutley74

larmy16 wrote: »

. I figured at 6.99 (off ebay) it was worth a shot.

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I just got some of ebay (uk seller) at £2.49 delivered! Worth a try (i have better than 20/20 vision and get my eye checked every year).

olly300

squirrelchops wrote: »

I have my vision checked annually as I wear contact lenses and have good vision. I have driven for over 18 years without incident (touch wood) and currently drive approx 600 miles a week but I aboslutely hate driving in the dark.

I too find some lights on other cars so bright. I have turned my rear mirror down and yet have still had cars with brights lights so far up my !!!! that light has literally been flooding into my car.

Lots of people now actually drive around with their headlights on full beam even if they are in an urban area.

Some of them don't know they are doing this - like a mate who had to be told by someone with the same make of car that her lights where on full beam - while others seem to purposely do it.

I have a common make and model of car yet my headlights aren't as bright as lots of other drivers with the same car. Why? Because I don't drive around with my lights on full beam. Even when I'm on rural roads I normally have someone in front of me so can't.

Respect

I have actually had a similar problem too. My eyes are fine and have been tested. I wear contact lenses and have regular check ups, every month in fact.

What I find difficult is when there are no lights on the motorway/dual carriage way and the opposite car's headlights just flash into my face. Once the lights are there, I am absoloutely fine. I really wish the motorway I travel on was lighted, it would help so much.

I've just assumed its becuase I'm female and a new driver I'm just not feeling as confident, so it is just me? I just wish the motorways were lit up!

Lum

On motorways I wish they would just make the concrete barriers taller. Then there's no distraction by lights coming the other way and you prevent jams caused by people rubbernecking at a crash on the other bloody side.

Inactive

Lum wrote: »

On motorways I wish they would just make the concrete barriers taller. Then there's no distraction by lights coming the other way and you prevent jams caused by people rubbernecking at a crash on the other bloody side.

Agreed, in Spain they grow hedges down the middle of motorways in many places, this really cuts down on the oncoming glare.

Rossy.

clever_username wrote: »

The post you're responding to said 'get your head tested' but you seem to have given an answer to 'get your eyes tested'.

Are you a retard?

I replied with "Why" and then proceeded to give my account of night time driving.

Is English your first language?

cyclonebri1

joyfull wrote: »

Let me clarify this. Other's have understood what I mean't which is why they 'side with me'.

When being dazzled by an oncoming pair of lights, which lasts maybe a second at the most, I'm unable to see the road in front of me.

A sneeze, a glance at the speedometer, a look at a road sign all take the eyes off the road for a second (or more) at a time. You, yes even YOU, will be doing this many times during a car journey.

The very fact that I posted this is evidence that I'm concerned about it and wanted to hear others' thoughts. I'm glad the subject has been aired, it's clearly an issue for many others. For the record I've been driving nearly 40 years and never caused an accident.

You will continue, I'm , to pick holes in everything I say in order to make me wrong, so go asurehead.

Have a Happy Christmas.

In that case I won't. Look this is nothing personnel but you have said in your 1st post that you cannot see the road in front of you at times and have to slow down, even you can see, pun intended, that thats a whole lot more than a second or a sneeze. And yes I too have been driving for that length of time without trouble, but then I've probably never met you coming the opposite way;).

My alarm at your post is that you appear to have more issues than most with night driving and really ought to sort it out with expert advice rather than opinion which is all you get or can expect on here????

Having read your last post to me maybe there's a clue in the length of time you've been driving?? 40 or so years which means you are aging and so are your eyes. This isn't agism, it's simple fact as I guess as I put us both at about the same age.

Please sort it proffessionally before you hurt yourself or worse.

And do have a merry Christmas:xmastree::xmassign::santa2:

newfoundglory

I don't particularly like night driving, but I dont care really. Sometimes things do glare.

- Do you have a heated front windscreen (sometimes the elements at night cause glare with on-coming traffic)?

- Do you wear contact lenses? (if you do, try glasses instead)

- Have you cleaned your windscreen lately?

joyfull

No heated front w'screen. (10 yr old rover! )
No contacts. Reading glasses prescribed only.
Windscreen given thorough clean recently & will be doing this regularly as slight 'greasiness' definitely causes lights to have starburst or halo effect..

Was out driving with OH (him driving) at night recently. We compared our experience of 'glare' and 'brightness' of oncoming headlights. We seemed to agree which headlights were very bright, but he didn't seem so 'bothered' by them.

Just to repeat. I will get my eyes checked again. Travel v difficult atm due to snow.