People who dont dip their lights.

consumers_revenge

The lights are on full trying to highlight kamakazee ninja cyclists :-)

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As you get older, your eyes are less able to adjust to bright light sources, and are more susceptible to "dazzle", especially from the bluer end of the spectrum.

In The Olden Days, when cars had 40W candles feebly glowing at the front, the lower temperatures produced a more diffuse yellower light, and much less glare.
(The French of course used yellow headlamps to reduce glare- or it could have been so the Resistance only blew up German lorries with their white lamps- depends on which sources you believe)

Nowadays, "improvements" in reflector design, and the much higher bulb temperatures result in much harsher and intense light sources.

Personally, I'd be very happy if I could get a Doctors note excusing me from work when ever it is dark and or raining, but as I'm still expected to get there, I have no choice but to drive with the only things I can see being the ridiculously bright lights of oncoming cars, and hope the pedestrians in their grey hoodies can dart in front fast enough for me to miss them.

Any yes I had a full eye test, including visual fields this Monday...

neilmcl

facade wrote: »

As you get older, your eyes are less able to adjust to bright light sources, and are more susceptible to "dazzle", especially from the bluer end of the spectrum.

The reason I was asking this earlier, although the OP declined to answer.

neilmcl wrote: »

Also, can I ask what sort of age are you and when was the last time you had your eyes checked.

Strider590

^^ Also depends on the car, I drove a Toyota Yaris courtesy car a few years ago and at night the convex mirrors made it look like I was being chased by the sun.

gilbert_and_sullivan

Its an escalating problem, the brighter the lights and the sharper the beam cut off the darker the shadow beyond light scatter will be.
So brighter lights, oh look its even darker out there beyond the light, so brighter still.

He's got brighter bluer blingier camper lights than me, that won't do i want brighter blingier even more camp lights that reflect all the whole spectrum at the edges cos i is one up man.

I can go blingier camper crasser still, i'll have blinding ultra camp fairy lights surrounding brighter than bright can be headlights.

an on and on its goes in the light wars.

Anyone old enough to remember what a pleasure it was to drive around London (and it was a much nicer place to be back then) at night when everyone was on sidelight only, and pedestrians and cyclists didn't disappear behind the wall of crass lights that now ruin everything, including and especially our night vision.

BeenThroughItAll

facade wrote: »

As you get older, your eyes are less able to adjust to bright light sources, and are more susceptible to "dazzle", especially from the bluer end of the spectrum.

In The Olden Days, when cars had 40W candles feebly glowing at the front, the lower temperatures produced a more diffuse yellower light, and much less glare.
(The French of course used yellow headlamps to reduce glare- or it could have been so the Resistance only blew up German lorries with their white lamps- depends on which sources you believe)

Nowadays, "improvements" in reflector design, and the much higher bulb temperatures result in much harsher and intense light sources.

Personally, I'd be very happy if I could get a Doctors note excusing me from work when ever it is dark and or raining, but as I'm still expected to get there, I have no choice but to drive with the only things I can see being the ridiculously bright lights of oncoming cars, and hope the pedestrians in their grey hoodies can dart in front fast enough for me to miss them.

Any yes I had a full eye test, including visual fields this Monday...

Try yellow tinted glasses. Since eye surgery I'm more sensitive to light and glare, but yellow tinted glasses help enormously.

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BeenThroughItAll wrote: »

Try yellow tinted glasses. Since eye surgery I'm more sensitive to light and glare, but yellow tinted glasses help enormously.

Thanks.

I have some clip-on yellow tinted polarized glasses which as you say, help quite a lot.
The polarizer is supposed to reduce the reflected glare off wet roads, and I can simply tip them open when nothing is coming towards me.

I tried to get a pair of yellow tinted polaroid night glasses from the optician, but they won't do polaroid for night glasses as they block too much light.

I do have polaroid sunglasses for early mornings when the low sun is straight in my eyes, and they work a treat stopping glare off wet roads when the sun comes back out.

iolanthe07

I think it is partly an age related thing. I am 70 and beginning to avoid driving at night, especially on motorways.

Driving down the M5 last week in torrential rain I was surprised at the number of cars without any lights on at all thundering down lane 3 at 80+ mph. Do these people have a death wish?

Gloomendoom

I find people who don't use full beam a problem. If you are stuck behind them, it makes overtaking more difficult because you can't see far enough ahead.

Assuming that you are not blinding anyone else, why wouldn't you want as much light as possible when driving in the dark?

Jlawson118

I've been kicking off at this too lately, I've had to turn my mirrors in sometimes or move them until they've disappeared! And then you get one coming in front of you then! Wind up