Lenses To Reduce Nighttime Glare and Reflections When Driving

How to Reduce Glare and Improve Vision When Driving at Night

Heading into winter, we tend to find ourselves driving in the dark more often. Night driving can not only be difficult but also potentially dangerous if you’re not wearing the correct prescription glasses.

In addition, there are several other factors which may affect your ability to see clearly while driving:

• Your eyesight has changed over time due to ageing or illness.
• You’re not wearing corrective eyewear. If you don’t use them regularly, they could become unsuitable for your eyes.
• The street lights around you aren’t strong enough to allow you to focus properly.
• There are too many distractions, such as windshield wipers, glare from headlights, road markings, etc.

Any of these factors may make it difficult for you to focus on the road ahead.

What Causes Glare While Driving?

Glare can come from all sorts of sources: from low sunlight to the reflection of bright light on wet roads, reflections off windows, and even from objects in your car that catch the light.

The most common cause of glare is oncoming headlights reflecting into your eyes, which happens because there is a difference in brightness between the lights coming towards you and those behind you.

Experiencing glare in low light conditions can cause our pupils to rapidly constrict (get smaller) to adapt to the light source, which can cause temporary blindness. It may take several seconds to regain full vision after being dazzled by glare. If you look out of the corner of your eye while looking straight ahead, you’ll notice that the image looks blurry or “fuzzy” compared to normal vision.

What Are the Dangers of Glare?

Glare creates the greatest danger at night when it obscures your vision or casts parts of the road into shadow.

Without wearing the proper prescription glasses for night driving, glare can reduce visibility and cause you to lose focus.

Glare can affect your depth perception and make it harder to judge distances, which could cause you to get too close to other objects on the road or struggle to determine how far away a potential hazard is. Your eyes can be affected by glare to the point that you experience double vision. If this happens, you should stop immediately and rest your eyes until you recover.

If you experience symptoms such as blurred vision, headaches, nausea, dizziness, confusion, fatigue, difficulty concentrating, or other problems, contact your doctor immediately. These symptoms could indicate serious health issues, including stroke, heart attack, seizures or brain injury.

How to Avoid Glare and Improve Your Vision When Night Driving

Fortunately, if glare is impacting your ability to drive safely, Opticare offers the perfect lenses for driving at night.

Hoya EnRoute provides anti-glare driving lenses for your glasses frames as well as some lens treatments that can prevent glare when night driving.

Hoya’s dedicated EnRoute driving lenses use anti-glare technology to give you a wide range of vision and help you drive safely at night. By offering contrast-rich vision in the far distance, of the dashboard, and in mirrors, drivers can feel comfortable and confident on the road, whatever the light level or time of day.

Get a 12-month scratched lens replacement guarantee with your Hoya lenses

At Opticare, we offer a scratched lens replacement guarantee on any glasses we supply with Hoya lenses up to 12 months after purchase. OptiPlan members qualify for a 2-year scratch guarantee, along with other benefits.

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Are You Due for an Eye Exam?

We recommend getting regular eye exams with an eye care professional at Opticare who can assess the condition of your eyes and detect early signs of serious health issues before they become major concerns. An eye exam at Opticare will also determine whether you need corrective lenses.

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