Yellow night time driving glasses (for my dad)

[DKL]

TonyRPH said:

I can state quite categorically that the glasses I have are indeed *very* effective against glare at night.

Wearing them at dusk is not an option - they only become effective in darkness.

And I have my eyes tested every two years (more regular testing has not been required) - I'm 52 btw.

I have an astigmatism and slight correction (I don't remember the exact figures) for distance and reading.

Edited by TonyRPH on Friday 14th December 19:22

Tony,
They're your eyes so if you like it then that's fine but there is no scientific evidence to support you. Ultimately we're all adults and must make our own decisions based on evidence gathered and our own experience.
They won't ever be sold in my practice for night time purposes.

As mentioned above lots of top calibre sports people use tints in the day but they don't at night. I feel they would when winning and losing can be split by fractions of a second.

[fangio]

The summary on the AA site seems to me to imply that if you don't wear sunglasses when it's sunny, you're in bother?

[BigBen]

I have a yellow tinted visor for night driving in the Atom. It works very well in areas with streetlights as it seems to offer better contrast but away from streelights it is terrible and I would even say dangerous, really makes seeing much more difficult.

[TonyHetherington]

Hi all

Wow I didn't realise there'd be so much to it!

It's not long/short sightedness that's causing it, because that's recently been fixed and found that dad's now got 20/20 vision once again (hurrah), it's just the side effect of more glare at night that he wishes to solve.

The principle that putting anything in front of your eye can only reduce light is a sound one, of course, so the level to which that goes is interesting as we're discussing night driving only (it's other driver's lights that cause).

Must admit I'm in limbo in knowing what to do now

Thanks all for the opinions/discussions etc - very interesting and very useful

[KGB1]

In 1990 I was trucking night shift Hull to London and back. The first few weeks were terrible with the glare off the lights on the M1, I was really suffering with sore and tired eyes.
Someone suggested yellow night driving glasses and I bought a pair off the shelf at Halfords, the difference was amazing and I would swear by them.

Thats my experience if it helps.

[loose cannon]

Totally of topic but I found those heated front screens to be horrid for night driving, your father doesn't have one fitted in his car by any chance ?

[Lordglenmorangie]

joebongo said:

I rest my case

[Davie]

My Mum has a pair of pretty basic yellow tinted glasses of driving at night and she swears by them. A couple of years back she was hit in the eye and as a result, she had a slight blurring in her peripheral vision which has improved over the past few months but she finds any kind of very white, intense light to be very uncomfortable. She's used yellow specs for the past year when driving at night and says they dramatically reduce the glare, especially when it's wet and thus the glare is much worse. I've not tried them so can't comment, maybe worth a shot as some conditions/headlight combos are pretty unpleasant.

Edited by Davie on Saturday 15th December 10:41

[jackh707]

Your dad is most likely starting to develop cataracts, this is a typical presentation. Tell him to go down to the optometrist so they can have a proper look and confirm this.

[TonyHetherington]

He effectively had a cataract operation 8 weeks ago so I certainly hope that's not the case

(the eye fix thing he had is the same, just for a different reason)