Anyone else always drive with the sunvisor down?
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Since racing karts i've always had the visor down. I think it's due to the narrow aperture of the visor cutting down the amount of information your brain is trying to process. I remember reading something by Dave Brodie (of BBR fame) saying he'd always have the visor down when doing high speed runs for that same reason. Utter garbage i'm sure! Force of habit is more likely, just feels more comfortable with less light coming in.
Count me in on this, too. Friends and family tend to take the piss, but I find it much easier to focus on the road when the sky is blocked out. My sunvisor stays down permanently, day and night. At night I find the street lights flashing over the top of the windscreen quite distracting.
As someone that likes their photography, it's easy for me to look at this logically. A camera can only capture a certain range of brightness, and in order to expose for the land correctly, you often have to darken the sky with a filter. Eyes have a much greater dynamic range, but I still find it much more comfortable to remove the brightness of the sky so my eyes adjust or "expose" better for what I need to see - the roads, surroundings and traffic.
I think the only time my visor ever goes up is when I've stopped too close to a traffic light and there isn't a light for me on the other side of the junction. Visor goes straight back down once I've set off though.
I also leave passenger sunvisors down when travelling in other people's cars.
As someone that likes their photography, it's easy for me to look at this logically. A camera can only capture a certain range of brightness, and in order to expose for the land correctly, you often have to darken the sky with a filter. Eyes have a much greater dynamic range, but I still find it much more comfortable to remove the brightness of the sky so my eyes adjust or "expose" better for what I need to see - the roads, surroundings and traffic.
I think the only time my visor ever goes up is when I've stopped too close to a traffic light and there isn't a light for me on the other side of the junction. Visor goes straight back down once I've set off though.
I also leave passenger sunvisors down when travelling in other people's cars.
Yep - me as well, have done for quite a while now.
I find it helps reduce glare.
Although I've recently wound the back of my seat up a couple of notches (my back's been a bit stiff so I'm trying a new seat layout for a bit) and now the visor just encroaches a bit too much. So I'm going to get some sort of sun strip.
I find it helps reduce glare.
Although I've recently wound the back of my seat up a couple of notches (my back's been a bit stiff so I'm trying a new seat layout for a bit) and now the visor just encroaches a bit too much. So I'm going to get some sort of sun strip.
Wafflesmk2 said:
Im the only person i know who does this, and i do it in any vehicle, all the time.
I find that in daylight, i dont like to see the sky and it feels too bright, and i get the same feeling from streetlights too. It's not like im blinded by the sky or streetlights, it just annoys me having to see them, so the visor comes down, even at night or in crappy weather. This is the same for all vehicles and always has been.
I like to feel boxed in when im in a car, thats why an estate with rear tinted windows and black headlining is like heaven to me. I hate any sort of light in the car.
Anyone else?
In daytime fog I do - it improves the contrast.I find that in daylight, i dont like to see the sky and it feels too bright, and i get the same feeling from streetlights too. It's not like im blinded by the sky or streetlights, it just annoys me having to see them, so the visor comes down, even at night or in crappy weather. This is the same for all vehicles and always has been.
I like to feel boxed in when im in a car, thats why an estate with rear tinted windows and black headlining is like heaven to me. I hate any sort of light in the car.
Anyone else?
Edited by Wafflesmk2 on Thursday 5th April 21:38
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I use mine in my 5... altho i do find the mk3 visors are too big even for a shorty like me but if i only lower it a bit then i imagine head-butting the solid plastic in the event of a bump
I drive, as much as possible, with the roof down but the glare issue is what's out front not what's overhead
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always have sunglasses to hand regardless of time of year
People have become used to me still having them sat on my head in the dark
I forget they're there
If people see me as being a twunt because of this then that's their problem not mine
I use mine in my 5... altho i do find the mk3 visors are too big even for a shorty like me but if i only lower it a bit then i imagine head-butting the solid plastic in the event of a bump
I drive, as much as possible, with the roof down but the glare issue is what's out front not what's overhead
and
always have sunglasses to hand regardless of time of year
People have become used to me still having them sat on my head in the dark
I forget they're there
If people see me as being a twunt because of this then that's their problem not mine
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