Night Driving Glasses withOUT Rx?

At the tender age of 53 I started noticing struggling to focus when
reading or working on my computer so off to the doc I went.
Everything was fine but I was prescribed a set of glasses for just
computer and reading. They help a lot but I have one other issue that
these don't help with. Night driving.

Not that I have a problem driving at night, my distance vision is
great but I have found, especially with the new super bright
headlights, my light sensitivity at night has changed. I have looked
in to this and seen threads about using AR (anti-reflective) coatings
on glasses but this appears to be to reduce the glare from people's
"regular" glasses. I do not wear glasses for anything but close up
reading and computer work. I have also read that ANY tinted or
polarized glasses at night reduce sight as well as glare. The eye doc
said that as we grow older we become more sensitive but didn't offer
up any solutions.

So my puzzlement is what can I do to reduce the impact of the newer
super bright headlights without badly impacting my ability to see at
night? Is there any type of glasses with some coating/tint/
polarization/anything that will reduce the intensity of the super
bright lights without making the world a darker place all the way
around???

All help or suggestions greatly appreciated.

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<299c9aeb-3673-441d-b59e-(E-Mail Removed)>,
infiniteMPG <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:


> polarized glasses at night reduce sight as well as glare. The eye doc
> said that as we grow older we become more sensitive but didn't offer
> up any solutions.

Don't drive at night. Works for me.

> All help or suggestions greatly appreciated.

Sorry. I have nothing constructive to advise, other than the above.

--
Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA
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Hey Mike,

Great solutions and I'll give that a try. Sounds good and I have been
trying to find some yellow tinted glasses but having a hard time.
I'll check around some sporting goods shops and see if I can maybe
check in the hunting supplies.

> Even if it doesn't help your vision, the chicks will dig it.

This totally cracked me up, even if my eyes are screwed up I can still
see enopugh to laugh my @ss off with that one. Thanks for the laugh
and the advice :O)

Scott

On Wed, 8 Dec 2010 10:54:45 -0800 (PST), infiniteMPG <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>At the tender age of 53 I started noticing struggling to focus when
>reading or working on my computer so off to the doc I went.
>Everything was fine but I was prescribed a set of glasses for just
>computer and reading. They help a lot but I have one other issue that
>these don't help with. Night driving.
>
>Not that I have a problem driving at night, my distance vision is
>great but I have found, especially with the new super bright
>headlights, my light sensitivity at night has changed. I have looked
>in to this and seen threads about using AR (anti-reflective) coatings
>on glasses but this appears to be to reduce the glare from people's
>"regular" glasses. I do not wear glasses for anything but close up
>reading and computer work. I have also read that ANY tinted or
>polarized glasses at night reduce sight as well as glare. The eye doc
>said that as we grow older we become more sensitive but didn't offer
>up any solutions.
>
>So my puzzlement is what can I do to reduce the impact of the newer
>super bright headlights without badly impacting my ability to see at
>night? Is there any type of glasses with some coating/tint/
>polarization/anything that will reduce the intensity of the super
>bright lights without making the world a darker place all the way
>around???
>
>All help or suggestions greatly appreciated.

http://www.optiboard.com/forums/show...riving+%2Btint

The CW is to get the best refraction possible for low light and distance
(infinity) vision, use high quality coated optics if there is an Rx, and keep
the windshield and headlights clean and the headlights aimed properly.

Robert Martellaro
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Roberts Optical Ltd.
Wauwatosa Wi.
www.roberts-optical.com
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself."
- Richard Feynman

On Dec 8 2010, 3:58*pm, "Mike Tyner" <mty...@mindspring.com> wrote:
> The helpful thing here is in many situations, blue light scatters more than
> other colors. So it's reasonable to think using yellow filters might help
> with bluish halogen headlights. Shooters and hunters like yellow-tinted
> glasses for a similar reason. Yellow shooter's glasses have been sold OTCin
> the sporting goods aisle for many years, so you could buy a pair at BigBox
> and leave the tags on while you take a test drive.

Did the OP find yellow helps at night? I would be surprised since
these work as blue supressers, and the night vision rods of the eye
mainly perceive a shade of turquoise. Rods signal to the brain a white/
grey but it really is detecting degree of blueness and explains why
you can hardly see a maroon car at night. So the bright sparkly night
lights may be more crisp with shooters glasses, but then on the other
hand you may be more likely to Tbone a ghostly maroon car whose moron
driver has lights off.

On Jan 17, 5:04*pm, dumbstruck <dumbst...@gmail.com> wrote:
> but then on the other
> hand you may be more likely to Tbone a ghostly maroon car whose moron
> driver has lights off.

I think I mean blue blocking glasses would make more colors seem
dimmer rather than just red ones. I keep thinking about how red cars
turn grey under those yellow astronomy-friendly streetlights, although
that's not exactly the same.

On Jan 17, 7:56*pm, "Mike Tyner" <mty...@mindspring.com> wrote:
> "dumbstruck" <dumbst...@gmail.com> wrote
>
> > Did the OP find yellow helps at night? I would be surprised since
> > these work as blue supressers, and the night vision rods of the eye
> > mainly perceive a shade of turquoise.
>
> Looks gray to me. I don't perceive turquoise.
>
> I might perceive aqua-blue lights further away than red lights of equivalent
> wattage. But blue light scatters more than red, too.
>
> In real life it hardly matters because rods don't "perceive" color and night
> driving doesn't use rod vision.
>
> You can't use your rods when there are head lights, street lights,
> roadsigns, instrument panels.

That's amazing that rods get lazy if there are points of light -
didn't evolution support cave men fighting each other with torches?
Anyway, you do need rods in real life driving. Copper thieves blacken
out long swaths of freeway lights which gov'ts are too broke to
replace. Meanwhile you face other cars with headlights out due to
thief's damage to the steering column, or just morons without a clue.
Or maybe the rods bow out even from your instrument lights.

Anyway, don't give that rods-see-white speech when I clearly said
"Rods signal to the brain a white/ grey but it really is detecting
degree of blueness and explains why you can hardly see a maroon car at
night.". Yeah, the maroon business is really due to the rod reponse
not extending that far, but it peaks at turquoise and slumps
elsewhere. Maybe that is why an aqua sea is so appealing - the rods
are firing in harmony with the cones?