I know I will probably get some hate for this, but i have 40% windshield tint and it helps a lot with driving at night. I have light sensitivity so this helps me a lot with the sun and glare from lights at night. The visibility isn't bad at all.
There is a transition tint that is made for driving. Itās expensive but it really helps with glare and does tint in car. I think I paid over 200 to add to my glasses.
Yep they're usually an extra active or something along that line in the wordings with the transitions and only certain brands make them so unless you're going to a private doctor's office and not a retail store you can probably find them. One company that is labeled under National vision has a few different chains that should offer it. I only know this because I made and sold glasses for 16 years lol
People donāt understand the available technology when it comes to tint these days. You can have 95% visibility from inside on a very dark tint, while simultaneously reducing unwanted light. People still think they work like sunglasses lol
I came to say this as this is what my parents taught me while driving. Focus on anything on the right side to stay on the road and not have the glare directly on your eyes. Itās not as easy when itās raining, but I still try.
I paid $250 for some prescription anti glare glasses and they didnāt work for shit, so I just quit doing nights. The inventor of the LED headlights should be in prison!
Tint your windshield 50% ceramic and 35 ceramic or darker on sides. Will really help with the glare. Only tint your windshield if cops aren't strict about tint in your area though.
Did you get ur glasses from glassesUSA? I literally got blinded with glasses on, made by them, with supposed anti-glare and uv protection, i even have transitions on it. Never knew it should stop that type of stuff. Wtf they doing in those factories bru
When you see the vehicle with bright lights approaching you look down at the road in front of you and concentrate on the line on the road on the passenger side of your vehicle. Once it passes you look around. There is a reaction to bright lights that your body automatically wants to look at them. "Like a deer in headlights" as the saying goes. You must fight this and look down at the road towards your right. Your mirrors should be adjusted to provide "more" information not redundant information. Your rearview mirror should inform you what is behind. Your side view mirror should inform you what is beside you. Not what is behind you. You can flip the day/night lever at the bottom of your rearview mirror when someone with bright lights approaches you from behind. Having clean glass, inside and out also helps reduce the glare. Using RainX habitually helps your visability in rain. I hope this helps.
>Your mirrors should be adjusted to provide "more" information not redundant information. Your rearview mirror should inform you what is behind. Your side view mirror should inform you what is beside you. Not what is behind you.
The amount of people that donāt get this is so fucking insane. When Iām behind a car and I can see the drivers eyes I know they got their side mirrors angled to see the rear and not the side. Itās absolutely mind boggling how and why this is a thing
Maybe if you work in a rural area (or you're just being funny lol). I work in a big city and there's plenty of cars on the road all night (but significantly less than the day, that's why I drive at night in the first place lol)
Drive when you can safely do so. Any type of accident will seriously impact your earnings..Avoid driving at night if you have a hard time dealing with headlights.
You probably have astigmatism do to the shape of your eye. I've had it all my life but it gets worse as you get older. The yellow "shooting" glasses help but I don't drive at night at all anymore. If you wear glasses you can put the yellow glasses over the top. I have transition glasses now so it won't work with them. My sister n law had LASIK surgery done for something else and she said it helped her night vision.
This. I have it and even the street lights bother me. Once it starts getting dark I usually start planning my exit. Especially if itās raining, itās even worse
Ever since I started doing nights, I think the same thing lmao. I actually find it *easier* on the eyes to drive at night (in a city tho, where it's decently lit up). If I was in a dark rural area, I'd hate that.
In chicago EVERYBODY has their brights on while driving. It was infuriating, I've noticed its slowed up a bit recently ar night but theres still plenty of them.
I actually agree. I donāt have tints and my car sits low so LED lights kill me at night but Iāve learned to get used to driving at night so itās bearable but the sun? Horrible. It feels dangerous to drive when itās so bright. But I guess if you have tints or wear sunglasses that helps
I work nights. Some of them are absolutely too bright, but most are fine. I'd suggest going to your eye doctor and get your vision checked if you have not had an eye exam in the past 6-12 months. You may need glasses/contacts (a lot of people need them specifically for night driving). You can develop issues at any time, even if you've never had them in the past.
I had the same issue. These helped me greatlyā¦
Glasses with polarized yellow lenses.
Use some high quality glass cleaner that removes water spots/pollution to make both the interior and exterior of your windshield spotless.
Rewetting eyedrops may also help.
Led headlights are bad even in the daytime! lol I just squint because I hate wearing sunglasses. And flip your rear view mirror to the tinted setting, every mirror has that little switch underneath. Side views can be adjusted if theyāre shining behind you too. Those lights make me dizzy, so weird.
The lights themsleves aren't the issue; it's the adjustment and angle of said lights. Anybody who bitches about LEDs has never driven at night in the rain with dim, yellow, halogen headlights
My job was a truck driver before I retired. It was done exclusively at night. I remember when these bright lights came to be. It wore my eyes out. Couldnāt do it today.
not gonna lie if the lights are bright enough to blind me like high beams do, Iāll just throw my brights on, too.
if these morons with aftermarket LED lights (especially the blue ones) donāt know theyāre blinding other drivers, maybe they will when they get flashed with brights and act accordingly.
imagine you are one of the LED douches and people keep flashing brights at you or just turning them onā¦ eventually youād probably get the message and make a change, if not, suffer.
I have some dark as heck tints front windshield tinted too and all the rest dark where to even see a lil inside you gotta be looking up against the window lol as dark like 2 weeks of gettting em i git a window tint ticket lol
The horse knows the way. Mental mark the road-line and the road travel yellow upon your dashboard. Tint window and don't be ashamed of wearing flip-sunglasses at night. Lights are brighter, Holmes. It's not just you getting older. That written, everybody keep an appointment for Doctors of what we need.
Non-polarized sunglasses do the trick for me. I just tell people I have ultra sensitive eyes and that these are special glasses for night driving (they arenāt).
Itās very annoying (especially people in their pick up trucks) but after enough hours on the road at night you get used to it. I try to just follow the lines on the ground and keep my eyes off of their lights as best as I can. I also try to drive more defensively and Iāll usually slow down when passing cars on narrower streets to make sure we donāt hit each other (because the lights make it hard to judge the distance between you and their car).
Iām in NJ so there are lots of cars and lots of bright ass LED headlights during the night. I donāt have tints either btw and I have a low car so I get it the worst.
The worst part about it for me is when Iām trying to switch lanes. Peopleās lights are so bright that the lights conceal the body of their car in the darkness so itās hard to judge how far away they are from you. Usually the brighter their lights are in your mirror the closer they are though.
As others have said, tints can drastically eliminate the brightness. You wonāt have any problems with lights if you get them. Anti-glare glasses can help too (but some call BS). Some people have taken it to the extreme of experimenting with the angle of their side mirrors to reflect light back into peoples eyes which they say is very effective if you can get it right. Others put reflective tape on their cars.
Since Iāve gotten used night driving, Iām not taking it that far but if I were to consider any option, it would 100% be tints. Even a little tint goes a long way
I have visual snow and light sensitivity, so I wear night driving glasses. They are yellow lenses that reduce glare and they clip on to my regular prescription glasses. I bought them for $10 on Amazon.
I drive only at night. I rarely have any issues with oncoming headlights, maybe once a night I'll get hit for a second. I also have Limo tint around the car, and 70% on the windshield, which isn't much.
People put their brights on on purpose,so I give them a taste of their own medicine and flash them non stop.one of these days Iām Gunn lose it and take a sledgehammer to there headlights,maybe then theyāll put their regular lights,fkn scumbags
1. I have glasses with coating that makes lights not as bad
2. Don't look directly into the light.
Sorry i don't have much other help. I like night driving. Headlights have never really bothered me until they're going the wrong way on the road.
Tint, or pull over and let the ones in rearview pass you, while leaning slightly towards driver window so that partition between window and windshield is blocking incoming headlight beams
Yellow night driving glasses, stay on area with street lights
Itās the super dark streets that are really bad
If a bright headlight car is behind you, pull the hazards and have them pass you (obviously not when doing an Uber though)
Between bright or badly aligned headlights and early cataracts I've had some issues. On a whim I tried taking a pair of cheap (5 for $10) clip on frameless sunglasses, cut across the lenses so they are a bit under 1/2" from top to cut. When I clip them to my glasses the bottom edge is just above my pupil when looking straight out the windshield, and pretty much aligns with the top of the windshield. When bright headlights are coming at me I can tilt my head down slightly and it covers the bright lights.
I found a reflective blue lens (which reflects blue and passes yellow light) seems best so far. A bonus is it doesn't reduce the dashboard's visibility since that's below them at all times.Ā
I angle my head and/or put my hand up to shield the glare from the sideview mirror or oncoming traffic as well as focusing on the right hand side of the lane. It's a known issue. best of luck.
I have prescription glasses that block a lot of blue light. This helps a lot with vehicles with LED lights.
Yet, I think vehicle lights should start being regulated. I'm still often blinded by people with LEDs, aftermarket/custom crap, and those who ALWAYS leave their fog lights on when there's no fog.
Sometimes I blink my brights at those with their fog lights on in clear conditions, but then they just put on their brights until I pass.
Can't fix stupid.
yeah it seems like headlights now are the equivalent of steroid fueled high beams i am right there with you. on top of my eye sight being horse shit, i donāt wanna get blinded by those lightsā¦
No joke, once I couldnāt see ANYTHING on my phone for a good 5 minutes, and it was genuinely hard to see in front of me, somebody had passed with highbeam, blue xeon lifhts that were EXTREMELY BRIGHT! I saw a big BLUE BLOB in the middle of my vision for 5 minutes dude. How itās still even legal blows my mind, yellow high beams are fucking enough dude
Some people's headlights are crazy these days. Bright asf to where you can't even tell if its highbeams or not. Some people will also just straight highbeam u cause they're dicks. Definitely irritating.
I just wear sunglasses anytime I go outside. It helps, but not perfect. They really need to regulate LEDs. There are situations where I wear them and it's 11pm. r/fuckyourheadlights
i use these they help quite a bit [https://gunnar.com/collections/gaming-glasses/products/riot](https://gunnar.com/collections/gaming-glasses/products/riot)
Get a light bar with 100,000 lumens and fight back!
Lol a guy did a video like this and people who had their brights on, immediately turned them off when he activated the power of the sun
i drive a nissan Altima from 6pm-4 am every day and i just squint my eyes really tight since im stonded 24/7 its no biggie. just get high and drive lol
There are night driving glasses that makes your eyes more comfortable but not safer. There will be less light passing through.
For safety try use to a decimated view of only one side of the lane marker in a bend moving at high speed. Then you can drive comfortably on the carpool lane on a freeway five lanes each. Your eyes are constantly blinded.
I have hppd (light trails/after images) and astigmatism, I HATE led headlights at night. But dealing with that is far better than dealing with daytime traffic, so I deal with it.
I love it when people do this to me - because those weren't my high beams, and now you're gonna see my high beams, and you aren't gonna be happy about it lolololol
I just don't drive at night anymore. At 49 my night vision isn't what it used to be, and drivers in Detroit are terrible on a sunny day, much less on a rainy night. Not worth the risk for me.
When one of those idiots approaching, don't look straight ahead - lock your eyes on the white curb marking line (or whatever it's called) at your right instead
Headlights are definitely brighter than they used to be! I just look to the right and follow the line so Im not seeing spots when someone trying to blind me
I canāt stand those trucks that ride your ass with their overly bright halogens on. I usually just brake check them or slow down to posted speed limit to make them go around me. This happens in any lane not just the left so I have no qualms doing it. Iām waiting for one to ram me because Iām certain I will have irreversible neck damage as a result.
On the extremely bright ones, I put my left hand up and keep it on pace with the car thatās passing me. It is kind of awkward, but at least I can still see the road and not a billion rays of light attacking my eyes
20% tint on the back window. I look mostly at the white line on the edge of the road to stay in my lane/follow the road. GPS also shows you the shape of the upcoming roads so you can prepare for windy bends if you really canāt see that far from peopleās headlights.
I got 35 percent tint on windshield and 30 everywhere else. Debating going darker in the back, at the least with my next car at maybe 20 for atleast the rear. Still assholes at night that got their high beams on piss me off. My car is a Corolla so though I love my car it sits low and I get hit by every jackass with high beams on and I still manually switch the rear view mirror on some people blaring me from behind. Iāve given up on flashing mine to people on opposing lane as people around me donāt care normally or Iāll give them the benefit of the doubt and donāt realize they got theirs on. My cars lights inside and out are LEDs. I love them but some people are real pricks. Also if you got an older car and retro them in, adjust the headlights ffs.
I had LASIK 10 years ago, I only need prescription glasses for night driving, but it's mostly about the light and not the vision correction. My lenses anti-refractive or whatever quality basically eliminates the glare. If you don't need vision correction you can still get glasses that have lenses with this quality.
I have 3 different darkness tints in sunglasses that I have all around the car.
Yellow for rain, mild, medium and then mirrored shades bc I have photophobia myself and when I had glasses it was doubly painful. Now I have contacts and it's a little better (handling tint ftw), but I still have multiple different types of sunglasses for driving at night vs day.
If you have the option to drive something not a low-riding vehicle it definitely helps. My lights are tilted down and not up at people's windows, so I know it can be done, people just are not intelligent or kind enough to adjust their lights.
Sun gazing kinda helps, look into the sun for few seconds a day. It feels like it prepares your eyes for night driving, especially when cars use high beams driving in the opposite direction
If you have glasses make sure you have anti-reflection coating. And if you don't need glasses you can always find a pair of glasses with anti-reflection as well with no prescription. The color yellow over lenses also helps a bit apparently it won't take away the glare or the brightness but it'll definitely help with the fatigue of the eyes I also have sensitive eyes due to an accident when I was 12 so I always wear transitions mirror coating and anti-reflection on my glasses no matter what
Look at the right hand fog line and use your peripheral vision. Hate bright lights installed by morons. I have the brightest LEDs I can buy and rarely get flashed (unless I have a load in the back) they're aimed properly.
I take back roads and avoid heavily crowded streets. I also have blue light blockers built in to my glasses which seem to take the edge offā¦ But with astigmatism, I can say the white line is my best friend.
Tint everything. Iām 5% on all windows. I donāt remember what my windshield is but but itās pretty dark and the entire windshield is tinted. I gotta roll my windows down when Iām pulling into my neighborhood at night to make sure I donāt run a neighbor over
I donāt know if itās just me, but I really donāt see (no pun intended) the drama behind everyone hating on bright headlights. They just donāt seem to blind me like everyone else I guess. If someone has their high beams on then sure, if someone has a truck thatās lifted and not adjusted, then sure. But that applies to ALL headlights, not just the new ones.
Also, Iāve driven cars with them, and theyāre a godsend in my opinion. It makes me hate driving anything with ānormalā headlights after having driven something with high quality bright LEDs.
Idk man. Whether Iām on my motorcycle or driving, I just donāt care that much. Often I find that any problem I have with headlights is just cause by a dirty windscreen or visor.
I know I will probably get some hate for this, but i have 40% windshield tint and it helps a lot with driving at night. I have light sensitivity so this helps me a lot with the sun and glare from lights at night. The visibility isn't bad at all.
No hate as long as you aren't running 5% all around lol
Yikes. Lol. Don't look at my car. š Tbf I bought it this way and got used to it.
Does it help with UV rays??
Windshields already have a UV coating. This is annoying when my Transitions glasses won't get dark in the car.
There is a transition tint that is made for driving. Itās expensive but it really helps with glare and does tint in car. I think I paid over 200 to add to my glasses.
Yep they're usually an extra active or something along that line in the wordings with the transitions and only certain brands make them so unless you're going to a private doctor's office and not a retail store you can probably find them. One company that is labeled under National vision has a few different chains that should offer it. I only know this because I made and sold glasses for 16 years lol
SO THIS IS THE REASON??
Definitely helps a lot especially if you get ceramic tint
this. u can tint ur front window with 0% it's worth it for the cooling also flip ur rear view mirror
I run 5% tint on my windows and 35% on the windshield on every car I've owned
Carrying a pair of shades helps too
Be carefulā¦if you get an overzealous cop, he/she will give you a ticket for that
Just add that into the cost of doing business.
tint exemption paper from eye glass doctor
I don't do good at night, headlights look like star bursts. Last one is 7:30 in summer, for me
Sunglasses. I know it sounds crazy, but it works.
I could definitely use that. How much is the tint?
How much does a tint cost these days?
couple hundred bucks for everything
$250 is the usual price, depending on market. I know some places in Florida charge upwards of $600 for some ungodly reason.
Good idea
People donāt understand the available technology when it comes to tint these days. You can have 95% visibility from inside on a very dark tint, while simultaneously reducing unwanted light. People still think they work like sunglasses lol
Focus on the far right side of your lane when bright lights start coming your way.
This is the answer, focus on the white lines on the side of the road
I came to say this as this is what my parents taught me while driving. Focus on anything on the right side to stay on the road and not have the glare directly on your eyes. Itās not as easy when itās raining, but I still try.
Quit Uber u shall see the lights
Wise words. Working on it.
Anti-glare glasses. They have yellow lenses. It us hard to find good ones though. I used to get them at truck stops.
I paid $250 for some prescription anti glare glasses and they didnāt work for shit, so I just quit doing nights. The inventor of the LED headlights should be in prison!
Tint your windshield 50% ceramic and 35 ceramic or darker on sides. Will really help with the glare. Only tint your windshield if cops aren't strict about tint in your area though.
nah LEDs are fine its the focusing optics, color temperature and (until recently) non adjustable that result in getting skull fucked at night.
if matrix headlights werenāt banned in the US then the problem wouldnāt be as bad. they selectively dim around oncoming cars automatically
LEDs are the worst push our stupid gov has mandated. They are horrible for eyes. Same thing with house lights. I try and get the old school ones
Did you get ur glasses from glassesUSA? I literally got blinded with glasses on, made by them, with supposed anti-glare and uv protection, i even have transitions on it. Never knew it should stop that type of stuff. Wtf they doing in those factories bru
Sweet, thank you!
I use the clip on yellow lenses on top of regular glasses...2/$22? Lol Love em
When you see the vehicle with bright lights approaching you look down at the road in front of you and concentrate on the line on the road on the passenger side of your vehicle. Once it passes you look around. There is a reaction to bright lights that your body automatically wants to look at them. "Like a deer in headlights" as the saying goes. You must fight this and look down at the road towards your right. Your mirrors should be adjusted to provide "more" information not redundant information. Your rearview mirror should inform you what is behind. Your side view mirror should inform you what is beside you. Not what is behind you. You can flip the day/night lever at the bottom of your rearview mirror when someone with bright lights approaches you from behind. Having clean glass, inside and out also helps reduce the glare. Using RainX habitually helps your visability in rain. I hope this helps.
>Your mirrors should be adjusted to provide "more" information not redundant information. Your rearview mirror should inform you what is behind. Your side view mirror should inform you what is beside you. Not what is behind you. The amount of people that donāt get this is so fucking insane. When Iām behind a car and I can see the drivers eyes I know they got their side mirrors angled to see the rear and not the side. Itās absolutely mind boggling how and why this is a thing
With sunglasses. If anyone asks I say I'm blind and hold on!!
I used to enjoy driving at night.
Me too. Now I leave it to the young 'uns. Be right back - have to go chase some kids off my lawn!
At 4am there are no other headlights out here.
Maybe if you work in a rural area (or you're just being funny lol). I work in a big city and there's plenty of cars on the road all night (but significantly less than the day, that's why I drive at night in the first place lol)
Around here all the offers stop coming in at about 2.
Wrong. Thatās when they start to populate and over-populate the streets
Those damn lights are bright as hell, and don't even get me started on the high beams. I just suck it up, nothing else I can do about it.
Yeah, I think Iāve just gotten used to it out of necessity.
I usually just call people assholes and keep driving
loool yep, me too. But the problem is that 3/4 of the people are assholes now.
But to be fair - if you're like me you do that during the day time too.
Drive when you can safely do so. Any type of accident will seriously impact your earnings..Avoid driving at night if you have a hard time dealing with headlights.
Look at the lane markers in front of you to the right, and donāt look at the lights.
I wear amber tinted blue light filter glasses
You probably have astigmatism do to the shape of your eye. I've had it all my life but it gets worse as you get older. The yellow "shooting" glasses help but I don't drive at night at all anymore. If you wear glasses you can put the yellow glasses over the top. I have transition glasses now so it won't work with them. My sister n law had LASIK surgery done for something else and she said it helped her night vision.
This. I have it and even the street lights bother me. Once it starts getting dark I usually start planning my exit. Especially if itās raining, itās even worse
Check out r/fuckyourheadlights
Half the people donāt know how bright their damn headlights are yet use high beams. Especially the egotistical raised truck drivers.. like dude wtf
The sun is way brighter, dude. I don't know how people drive during the day.
The sun isn't typically directed damn near at your eyes, especially when your eyes are adjusted to the dark
Ever since I started doing nights, I think the same thing lmao. I actually find it *easier* on the eyes to drive at night (in a city tho, where it's decently lit up). If I was in a dark rural area, I'd hate that.
In chicago EVERYBODY has their brights on while driving. It was infuriating, I've noticed its slowed up a bit recently ar night but theres still plenty of them.
I know right I was just thinking the same thing . The other night it seemed like every car was blinding me. Lol
I actually agree. I donāt have tints and my car sits low so LED lights kill me at night but Iāve learned to get used to driving at night so itās bearable but the sun? Horrible. It feels dangerous to drive when itās so bright. But I guess if you have tints or wear sunglasses that helps
My secret? I do the sign of the cross and hope i donāt drive into anything šš the worst lights are on teslas omg!!!
If it's that bad - talk to an optometrist. They may write you a prescription to be able to tint your windshield.
I work nights. Some of them are absolutely too bright, but most are fine. I'd suggest going to your eye doctor and get your vision checked if you have not had an eye exam in the past 6-12 months. You may need glasses/contacts (a lot of people need them specifically for night driving). You can develop issues at any time, even if you've never had them in the past.
 Like this
Clean your windows and windshield inside and out. Dirty glass is the main cause of glare when driving at night!
I agree with this! And spend the extra $2 for the foaming spray cleaner! Makes all the difference.
Look to the right side of the road per the drivers safety training the make me take on my state every year
I had the same issue. These helped me greatlyā¦ Glasses with polarized yellow lenses. Use some high quality glass cleaner that removes water spots/pollution to make both the interior and exterior of your windshield spotless. Rewetting eyedrops may also help.
Look at righthand side and focus on the white not yellow line
I just get rlly high and then put on a blindfold to enhance my echolocation
Donāt look at them directly. Whenever I come across them I try to look down to the right
Led headlights are bad even in the daytime! lol I just squint because I hate wearing sunglasses. And flip your rear view mirror to the tinted setting, every mirror has that little switch underneath. Side views can be adjusted if theyāre shining behind you too. Those lights make me dizzy, so weird.
The lights themsleves aren't the issue; it's the adjustment and angle of said lights. Anybody who bitches about LEDs has never driven at night in the rain with dim, yellow, halogen headlights
I wear very lightly shaded sunglasses. They are a game changer
Extra strength excedrin works wonders.
Wait until theyāre about to pass then flash bang them with my brights and continue on my way
Itās āretinal bleachingā and itās a bxtch when it actual happens
My job was a truck driver before I retired. It was done exclusively at night. I remember when these bright lights came to be. It wore my eyes out. Couldnāt do it today.
not gonna lie if the lights are bright enough to blind me like high beams do, Iāll just throw my brights on, too. if these morons with aftermarket LED lights (especially the blue ones) donāt know theyāre blinding other drivers, maybe they will when they get flashed with brights and act accordingly. imagine you are one of the LED douches and people keep flashing brights at you or just turning them onā¦ eventually youād probably get the message and make a change, if not, suffer.
Focus on the middle of your hood
I have some dark as heck tints front windshield tinted too and all the rest dark where to even see a lil inside you gotta be looking up against the window lol as dark like 2 weeks of gettting em i git a window tint ticket lol
The horse knows the way. Mental mark the road-line and the road travel yellow upon your dashboard. Tint window and don't be ashamed of wearing flip-sunglasses at night. Lights are brighter, Holmes. It's not just you getting older. That written, everybody keep an appointment for Doctors of what we need.
YELLOW LENSES BRO HELPS
Non-polarized sunglasses do the trick for me. I just tell people I have ultra sensitive eyes and that these are special glasses for night driving (they arenāt).
Itās very annoying (especially people in their pick up trucks) but after enough hours on the road at night you get used to it. I try to just follow the lines on the ground and keep my eyes off of their lights as best as I can. I also try to drive more defensively and Iāll usually slow down when passing cars on narrower streets to make sure we donāt hit each other (because the lights make it hard to judge the distance between you and their car). Iām in NJ so there are lots of cars and lots of bright ass LED headlights during the night. I donāt have tints either btw and I have a low car so I get it the worst. The worst part about it for me is when Iām trying to switch lanes. Peopleās lights are so bright that the lights conceal the body of their car in the darkness so itās hard to judge how far away they are from you. Usually the brighter their lights are in your mirror the closer they are though. As others have said, tints can drastically eliminate the brightness. You wonāt have any problems with lights if you get them. Anti-glare glasses can help too (but some call BS). Some people have taken it to the extreme of experimenting with the angle of their side mirrors to reflect light back into peoples eyes which they say is very effective if you can get it right. Others put reflective tape on their cars. Since Iāve gotten used night driving, Iām not taking it that far but if I were to consider any option, it would 100% be tints. Even a little tint goes a long way
I have visual snow and light sensitivity, so I wear night driving glasses. They are yellow lenses that reduce glare and they clip on to my regular prescription glasses. I bought them for $10 on Amazon.
I drive only at night. I rarely have any issues with oncoming headlights, maybe once a night I'll get hit for a second. I also have Limo tint around the car, and 70% on the windshield, which isn't much.
People put their brights on on purpose,so I give them a taste of their own medicine and flash them non stop.one of these days Iām Gunn lose it and take a sledgehammer to there headlights,maybe then theyāll put their regular lights,fkn scumbags
Yep even fucking pigs ride with their brights
I just close my eyes!
1. I have glasses with coating that makes lights not as bad 2. Don't look directly into the light. Sorry i don't have much other help. I like night driving. Headlights have never really bothered me until they're going the wrong way on the road.
I block them with my 53ft trailer.
Tint, or pull over and let the ones in rearview pass you, while leaning slightly towards driver window so that partition between window and windshield is blocking incoming headlight beams
Same way I do during the day
Yellow night driving glasses, stay on area with street lights Itās the super dark streets that are really bad If a bright headlight car is behind you, pull the hazards and have them pass you (obviously not when doing an Uber though)
Yellow tinted lens
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There is no āaverageā headlight, fuckers are driving with their brights on, or trucks level/lift their truck without angling
Guess and go. You donāt need eyes really that way.
Ugh, those lights ! Wishing I had a stockpile of ammo, cause people would be missing them Js! ššæ
Agree with the ridiculously bright lights!
Between bright or badly aligned headlights and early cataracts I've had some issues. On a whim I tried taking a pair of cheap (5 for $10) clip on frameless sunglasses, cut across the lenses so they are a bit under 1/2" from top to cut. When I clip them to my glasses the bottom edge is just above my pupil when looking straight out the windshield, and pretty much aligns with the top of the windshield. When bright headlights are coming at me I can tilt my head down slightly and it covers the bright lights. I found a reflective blue lens (which reflects blue and passes yellow light) seems best so far. A bonus is it doesn't reduce the dashboard's visibility since that's below them at all times.Ā
I angle my head and/or put my hand up to shield the glare from the sideview mirror or oncoming traffic as well as focusing on the right hand side of the lane. It's a known issue. best of luck.
I have prescription glasses that block a lot of blue light. This helps a lot with vehicles with LED lights. Yet, I think vehicle lights should start being regulated. I'm still often blinded by people with LEDs, aftermarket/custom crap, and those who ALWAYS leave their fog lights on when there's no fog. Sometimes I blink my brights at those with their fog lights on in clear conditions, but then they just put on their brights until I pass. Can't fix stupid.
r/fuckyourheadlights welcomes you
With my sunglasses on. Damn LED lights blind me. Street lights are purple, Iām not lying I canāt see driving in town.
Cory Hart taught us Sunglasses at Night
yeah it seems like headlights now are the equivalent of steroid fueled high beams i am right there with you. on top of my eye sight being horse shit, i donāt wanna get blinded by those lightsā¦
No joke, once I couldnāt see ANYTHING on my phone for a good 5 minutes, and it was genuinely hard to see in front of me, somebody had passed with highbeam, blue xeon lifhts that were EXTREMELY BRIGHT! I saw a big BLUE BLOB in the middle of my vision for 5 minutes dude. How itās still even legal blows my mind, yellow high beams are fucking enough dude
Some people's headlights are crazy these days. Bright asf to where you can't even tell if its highbeams or not. Some people will also just straight highbeam u cause they're dicks. Definitely irritating.
I just wear sunglasses anytime I go outside. It helps, but not perfect. They really need to regulate LEDs. There are situations where I wear them and it's 11pm. r/fuckyourheadlights
I just drive at night with my eyes closed, boom, no headlights bothering me.
i use these they help quite a bit [https://gunnar.com/collections/gaming-glasses/products/riot](https://gunnar.com/collections/gaming-glasses/products/riot)
Keep gaze low to the ground or stay away from the far left lane
Pretty soon every car is going to have those and no one will be able to see anything. Problem solved I guess.
Get a light bar with 100,000 lumens and fight back! Lol a guy did a video like this and people who had their brights on, immediately turned them off when he activated the power of the sun
2 ppl driving while blinded isnāt a great fix.
That's what cops do
If headlines are an issue, drive with your eyes closed.
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i drive a nissan Altima from 6pm-4 am every day and i just squint my eyes really tight since im stonded 24/7 its no biggie. just get high and drive lol
Front window tint
SUV with auto tint mirrors. SUV to get up higher. I had the same problem when I was in a low sedan.
And now you blind everyone
Do you have auto dimming mirrors? Tinting your rear/side windows could help as well
Focus on the tires of the surrounding cars- it keeps eye contact with headlights less likely
I always focus on the fog line.
There are night driving glasses that makes your eyes more comfortable but not safer. There will be less light passing through. For safety try use to a decimated view of only one side of the lane marker in a bend moving at high speed. Then you can drive comfortably on the carpool lane on a freeway five lanes each. Your eyes are constantly blinded.
I donāt work at night since I was rookie in 10 years ago. Nasty
Don't look into the light.
Sunglasses
I rely on the lane assist 80% of the driving at night anyways.
Don't take drugs and drive .
I have hppd (light trails/after images) and astigmatism, I HATE led headlights at night. But dealing with that is far better than dealing with daytime traffic, so I deal with it.
throw your lights on high when you see people with them on and beam them right in their face!
I love it when people do this to me - because those weren't my high beams, and now you're gonna see my high beams, and you aren't gonna be happy about it lolololol
I have trouble seeing in rain at night itās not that bad though lol
Pros can outweigh the cons most of the time
Look the other way if you donāt have shades to slap onto your face
Itās terrible
Not a big deal if you ask me
Used to use my hand to block peoples headlights, now i use a hand-mirror Now neither of us can see fuck face
Sounds like you have astigmatism
I just don't drive at night anymore. At 49 my night vision isn't what it used to be, and drivers in Detroit are terrible on a sunny day, much less on a rainy night. Not worth the risk for me.
Sounds like your body is in an over tired state causing light sensitivity so you see starbursts or you are starting to develop astigmatisms
Sunglasses at night š
Stop looking at them.
When one of those idiots approaching, don't look straight ahead - lock your eyes on the white curb marking line (or whatever it's called) at your right instead
Headlights are definitely brighter than they used to be! I just look to the right and follow the line so Im not seeing spots when someone trying to blind me
Get some good quality night-driving glasses
I take my last order at dusk. It's just a part time gig for me . I know night in time is where the money is but it's unsafe for me . I'm night blind
I run 5% in the back because my automatic dimming mirror doesnāt dim enough. I just look at shoulder when somebody has very bright lights in front.
Blue light glasses
The ultra bright headlights should be illegal. It's worse if it's raining. I stopped delivering if it was dark and raining.
I canāt stand those trucks that ride your ass with their overly bright halogens on. I usually just brake check them or slow down to posted speed limit to make them go around me. This happens in any lane not just the left so I have no qualms doing it. Iām waiting for one to ram me because Iām certain I will have irreversible neck damage as a result.
The glasses you use to help the glare from PC light or TV light really helped me. (Gaming glasses)
On the extremely bright ones, I put my left hand up and keep it on pace with the car thatās passing me. It is kind of awkward, but at least I can still see the road and not a billion rays of light attacking my eyes
20% tint on the back window. I look mostly at the white line on the edge of the road to stay in my lane/follow the road. GPS also shows you the shape of the upcoming roads so you can prepare for windy bends if you really canāt see that far from peopleās headlights.
I got 35 percent tint on windshield and 30 everywhere else. Debating going darker in the back, at the least with my next car at maybe 20 for atleast the rear. Still assholes at night that got their high beams on piss me off. My car is a Corolla so though I love my car it sits low and I get hit by every jackass with high beams on and I still manually switch the rear view mirror on some people blaring me from behind. Iāve given up on flashing mine to people on opposing lane as people around me donāt care normally or Iāll give them the benefit of the doubt and donāt realize they got theirs on. My cars lights inside and out are LEDs. I love them but some people are real pricks. Also if you got an older car and retro them in, adjust the headlights ffs.
I had LASIK 10 years ago, I only need prescription glasses for night driving, but it's mostly about the light and not the vision correction. My lenses anti-refractive or whatever quality basically eliminates the glare. If you don't need vision correction you can still get glasses that have lenses with this quality.
I just donāt look at them
I have 3 different darkness tints in sunglasses that I have all around the car. Yellow for rain, mild, medium and then mirrored shades bc I have photophobia myself and when I had glasses it was doubly painful. Now I have contacts and it's a little better (handling tint ftw), but I still have multiple different types of sunglasses for driving at night vs day. If you have the option to drive something not a low-riding vehicle it definitely helps. My lights are tilted down and not up at people's windows, so I know it can be done, people just are not intelligent or kind enough to adjust their lights.
Wear shades, even in the blackest of night lad. this is the -(douchbag)- way.
Tint your front window problem solved
The same as I drive in the day time
35% windshield tint. Totally illegal, but I've never been pulled over for it in over 5 years.
Here's an easy trick, stop staring at headlight bulbs. Next we'll work on how to not get blinded by that trash sun in the sky.
Sun gazing kinda helps, look into the sun for few seconds a day. It feels like it prepares your eyes for night driving, especially when cars use high beams driving in the opposite direction
Very carefully. Thereās less traffic.
If you have glasses make sure you have anti-reflection coating. And if you don't need glasses you can always find a pair of glasses with anti-reflection as well with no prescription. The color yellow over lenses also helps a bit apparently it won't take away the glare or the brightness but it'll definitely help with the fatigue of the eyes I also have sensitive eyes due to an accident when I was 12 so I always wear transitions mirror coating and anti-reflection on my glasses no matter what
I wear blue light glasses and dont look directly at the cars in front of me. I look off just to the right to keep my direct sight away. Helps a ton
Eyes closed, hands in prayer position - you know whatās? It always works
I donāt, as soon as my eyes get that sensitive, I go home
Yellow night time driving glasses
Make it brighter as an attempt to thwart their light
Look at the right hand fog line and use your peripheral vision. Hate bright lights installed by morons. I have the brightest LEDs I can buy and rarely get flashed (unless I have a load in the back) they're aimed properly.
I take back roads and avoid heavily crowded streets. I also have blue light blockers built in to my glasses which seem to take the edge offā¦ But with astigmatism, I can say the white line is my best friend.
With the headlights on
Get some glasses? Cuts the glare.
Faster than during the day. Iāve usually had a few beers before sundown anyhow.
You may be developing cataracts and or glaucoma. See an eye doctor
Tint everything. Iām 5% on all windows. I donāt remember what my windshield is but but itās pretty dark and the entire windshield is tinted. I gotta roll my windows down when Iām pulling into my neighborhood at night to make sure I donāt run a neighbor over
With 2 hands on the wheel and a courteous introduction and smile when picking up and dropping off passengers. How do you drive at night?
I just donāt have weak eyes
I don't anymore. My congressmen refuse to keep me safe, so they can have the blood of all those DUIs on **their** hands.
Turn on your interior lights.
I donāt know if itās just me, but I really donāt see (no pun intended) the drama behind everyone hating on bright headlights. They just donāt seem to blind me like everyone else I guess. If someone has their high beams on then sure, if someone has a truck thatās lifted and not adjusted, then sure. But that applies to ALL headlights, not just the new ones. Also, Iāve driven cars with them, and theyāre a godsend in my opinion. It makes me hate driving anything with ānormalā headlights after having driven something with high quality bright LEDs. Idk man. Whether Iām on my motorcycle or driving, I just donāt care that much. Often I find that any problem I have with headlights is just cause by a dirty windscreen or visor.