Dazzle Drivers

[Melanie Wendelberger]

Ifind as I get older, I cannot cope with the lights of oncoming cars, be they main beam or dipped. I find this a bit worrying as I do not want to end up in an accidental crash or be the victim of one? How do others cope with this issue? I am going to see my Optician and will mention this to him/her to see if there is a simple thing like the yellow lenses that others have said works for them.

You can get a pair of yellow glasses like sunglasses the really help , What gets me is the amount of folk that drive on full beam and wait till they light up your car before putting them on dipped beam

I normally lift a hand, to shield my eyes when a car approaches with full beam or a badly adjusted dip beam. Newer cars seem to have much brighter lights. I will be interested to know if the optician has a solution.

I spent a fortune at my opticians with "special" coatings to stop this glare, did no good, changed opticians to be told the problem was cataracts. Had both eyes done and now no problem except of course glare from the stupid superbrights which affect everyone.

Out council has decided to stop (and even take up) cats eyes. So it's kind of guess work where your going if theres a bit of water on the road, and you can't see because of the 2 above. When ever you felt blinded you could just aim for in-between the verge and the cats eyes. Well that brings me too...

And also I have a theory that overgrown verges suck up light, instead of reflecting it because they don't get cut, also pushing cars further into the middle, which you have to guess where it is, because of the above

And mainly age. I'm not old, well I don't feel old being early 40s but my eyes are now. I've recently gone to the opticians to have my first set of glasses and I got their anti glare coating which I assumed was a con, but it's worked for me. They are fresh so we'll see how resilient they are after a year or two. Also before when I drove round west Wales delivering cars to customers, I used to wear yellow shades at night and they helped as well.

Went through the slowing down bit, the looking at the nearside kerb bit and the clip on polaroid anti dazzle glases which did work, but in the end I realised my eyes weren't adjusting quickly any more. Don't drive at night now except in built up areas and the short dash to the farm. The only inconvenience is that a couple of choice restaurants out in the sticks are reserved now for summer evenings.

I now try and avoid night time driving all together even though our roads are fairly quite , even worse when it is raining and at my age I cannot see it getting any better ( excuse the pun ) , so unless it is urgent I now leave the journey till it get light .

Me too. I had some new glasses a month ago and they have anti-glare coatings. Also making sure your windscreen is clean helps. For cars behind my Mazda 2 came as standard with what they call a "dipping (rear view) mirror".

I was at the Opticians yesterday and I raised this very topic. Since having a detached retina, which led to later surgery for cataract in my left eye, I suffer from bright sunlight, especially at this time of year. I was asked how I coped with driving at night. I admitted that I find some headlights worse than others, but I tend to watch the nearside kerb and try to avoid looking at oncoming headlights. My own vehicle is fitted with auto dipping headlights which I will not use. I think they do not react quickly enough to oncoming traffic, thus causing oncoming drivers to flash or even leave their lights on main beam. The yellow glasses don't work for me and the Optician did not seem to think they worked very well either. The only other thing I have done, which I find invaluable, is to fit a 'dash mat'. That stops a lot of daytime sunlight glare, but I think it helps stop a lot of nightime reflection too. It is certainly an age related thing in my case. I drove emergency vehicles day and night for some 30 years, then after retirement, I drove for the Locum service, which was always at night. IF, yellow glasses worked, I do think emergency service drivers would be issued with them.

I would add that I am paranoid about a clean windscreen. I carry neat windscreen washer additive in the vehicle and use a non scratch pan scrub to clean both screen and wiper blades. In winter, I clean ALL of the car windows and lights, before every journey. Just a carry on from my previous employment.

Edited to say: Apologies, it's sunset that these photos are being taken, not sunrise. I hope that doesn't affect the answers that everyone has taken the trouble to answer. Thanks again to all for all the advice.

Is it possible for sunlight to reflect off a 400mm camera lens, sufficient to dazzle a driver on a road approximately 300 feet away? I am not a photography buff, but my son is planning on taking some photographs at sunset which I am worrying myself sick over in case he causes an accident.

The possibility of a flare of a flat lens hitting someone's eyes is minuscule, tiny, small. Besides that, to really annoy someone driving should be continuous light hitting for some seconds the eyes, so that means that you need to purposely move a mirror-like surface (which is not a lens) to follow your driver. Which is in fact very difficult. A small shake of your hands, a tiny angular change produces a big change in the distances.

Try one experiment at home. Get one of your son's lens filters, and play with it trying to hit that reflection in a specific target, Depending on the conditions you will not be able to find the reflected beam even at a couple of meters away.

I used to commute every morning directly west over a bridge from a barrier island on Florida's east coast, with very few tall buildings on the island to block the morning sun behind me. The bright sunrise was behind me, but annoyingly, it reflected off of two main things:

But more importantly, if his lens did reflect the sun into a driver's eyes, it's only for a vanishingly small moment, as the driver traverses into the narrow reflection path, and then immediately out of it.

I have never seen a lens where the front element is flat. I only know lenses with a convex front. So, the reflection from the front element isn't concentrated in one direction, but spreads out over quite some angle, thus being much less intense than a flat-mirror reflection. (And according to my experience, the same is true for reflections from inner lens surfaces.)

It is currently illegal to retrofit LED lights into a car being used on public roads, and there are no regulations around the intensity of these lights, or how they are installed, increasing the chances of drivers being dazzled.

Mike Hawes, chief executive of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, said all headlights must comply with legislation that ensures they produce a pattern of light that minimises glare while maximising the distance drivers can see.

The dazzle, or what is clinically known as glare, is caused by the loss of contrast, which happens when light scatters within the eye, and gives drivers the impression a veil has been thrown over their vision.

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Confirmation needed: While installing just the drivers should work, I did not have to resort to this to get my Dazzle to work. Anyone with experience using this install method should edit this line to confirm.

The Pinnacle Studio software that comes with the Dazzle is slow, clunky, and does not record video with the quality that SDA requires for runs. However, it's recommended to install it anyway since it can still be used to test that your device and drivers are working properly.

One of the biggest problems with the Dazzle is how the device is registered with Windows. Rather than setting up the audio capture to work with the Windows mixer, instead the audio capture is kept hidden. Since the Pinnacle software is designed to work with the Dazzle, as long as the device is working and the drivers are installed properly, you'll always be able to get video/audio. This can help rule out the Dazzle as having a problem if a capture program doesn't work properly.

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