Night Driving & Yellow Tinted Glasses

[SimonB]

I brought some yellow tinted night driving glasses to help cut the glare from head lights.

When I told my Optometrist she said never to wear them, they significantly reduce reaction times.

Is this the case and are all night driving glasses the same?

They wouldn’t be able to sell them if they where dangerous would they?

[GarethB]

When I told my Optometrist she said never to wear them, they significantly reduce reaction times.

Is this the case and are all night driving glasses the same?

All the night driving glasses I have tried have been too dark so I can't see as far down the roas as normal so I can understand where the reduced reaction time concerns come from. When I was wearing RGP lenses, I found that a pair of glasses with no lens power but with an antireflective coating on worked far better and didn't make things darker.

Glare can be greatly reduced by cleaning the insides of a car windscreen to reduce light scatter from the dirt that builds up it. Cabin filters in modern cars remove pollen and coarse particles but the fine particulates still make it through and stick to the window.

Now I only clean the inside of the car windows every month as the soft lenses I have for KC reduce the glare, halos and star burst effects far more effectively than the RGP lenses that I had.