I dont know anything about you or your situation but:

What researchers say about night driving glasses
Researchers at Harvard’s Schepens Eye Research Institute recently conducted a study. The study aimed to find out whether night driving glasses provided any visual benefit for nighttime driving.

All 22 of the participants “drove” in four simulated night-driving conditions. They wore either yellow-tinted night driving glasses or glasses with clear lenses. Each participant also drove in scenarios with and without a headlight glare simulator activated. The goal was to mimic the effect of oncoming traffic.

In each scenario, participants’ reaction time to seeing a pedestrian along the simulated roadway was measured.

The study found that night driving glasses did not appear to improve:

• How well participants detected pedestrians at night.
• The negative effects of headlight glare on pedestrian detection.

“Our data suggest that wearing yellow-lens glasses when driving at night does not improve performance. Particularly in the most critical task: detection of pedestrians,” the study’s authors said.

In fact, the results found “that wearing yellow-lens glasses may slightly worsen performance.” But the finding “was not statistically significant.”

“These findings do not appear to support having eye care professionals advise patients to use yellow-lens night-driving glasses,” the authors concluded.

Night driving glasses: Help or hoax?

Find out if night driving glasses with yellow lenses really help you see better at night.

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That said, talk to your eye doctor and stop looking at the lights.
A trick to driving at night is to focus on the lines not the headlights.

 

I dont know anything about you or your situation but:



That said, talk to your eye doctor and stop looking at the lights.
A trick to driving at night is to focus on the lines not the headlights.

It was a long time ago, but I was taught the line “trick” in driver’s ed.

Another note: The instructor’s name was Kreisher, pronounced “Crasher” by the instructor. Good name for driver’s ed instructor.

 

Good article. Thanks

I saw an eye doc recently. He didn’t even recommend corrective lenses because my eyes aren’t bad enough.

Your advice about not staring at lights and focusing on the lines is common sense.

 

Your advice about not staring at lights and focusing on the lines is common sense.

Agreed, but in the moment we look at the lights

I love a my tinted windshield, but thats not for everyone and state laws make it complicated.

 

Did your doctor ever mention cataracts? That's the cause of that halo from lights at night. You might want to ask specifically about that. MY doctors usually don't mention mine, but when I inquire, they say, "Well yours isn't very bad yet, but when you want to get that fixed, we can get into it." I've had astigmatism for many years and only recently have experience with cataracts.

 

I have window tint on my windshield and there is easily less glare or starring from lights at night.

 

@Ron Nielson , no he did not specifically mention cataracts. He did say my eyes are healthy.

It’s possible that I just need to re-train/practice not looking at those pretty, bright LED lights at night. 😆

The last I knew, tinted windshields were illegal in my state. But… I have seen quite a few of them driving around the past couple of years. I don’t see myself doing that anyway.

 

Tinted windshields are illegal. 70% is not noticeable and does prevent glare.

 

I replaced the lenses in a pair of old sunglasses with tracer yellow lenses from Revant Optics. Helps with the glare.

Sunglass Lens Color Guide | Revant Optics

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I have a pair of semi cheap yellow lens ones. I find they help most during the hours of transition from day to night but once it gets dark I usually take them off.

 

It’s all those King Ranch Platinum F150s towing bumper pull horse trailers that get me… Ford has some insane LEDs in those and ppl love over loading half tons

 

It's the F250s and 350s that have 2 slotted regular headlight beams- 2 separate bulbs on each side for low beams. quad dual beam is what they call it.

 

Yep those ones are fun too…

OP- Personally, My solution to glare starts with cleaning the windshield religiously inside and out. And for the real side effects of glare- I throw more light on the road without blinding others, so higher output LED spot beams mounted where the OEM fog light lights were. Just make sure they don’t put more light above your normal low beams go. It’s about the best I can do so far. Do everybody a favor and don’t replace your halogens low beams with aftermarket LED bulbs.

 

Years ago I had real problems at night. Apparently my eyes would dilate too much at night and normal night time driving was uncomfortable but when it rained and the roads were wet, driving in town at night with lots of other traffic was damn near impossible. The reflection of headlights off the wet roads plus the headlights themselves would just blind the crap outta me. Started actually wearing sunglasses in those conditions and that was much better but mostly just avoided driving in town, at night, while the roads were wet. I've never used brights while driving. The light reflects off the road signs and blinds me. My wife of 37 or so years has always been the opposite (blind at night) and she gets really upset when she can't see because I don't have the brights on. I'm driving, I'm the one that needs to see. Been telling her that for 40+ years LOL.

Lately, as I get older and my eyes get worse (at 61, I still only use readers occasionally and don't own any prescription glasses) my night vision is not near as sensitive as it used to be and the glare doesn't bother me near as bad. But at the same time, I cannot see near as well at night on the dark, country roads as I used to.

 

Yep those ones are fun too…

OP- Personally, My solution to glare starts with cleaning the windshield religiously inside and out. And for the real side effects of glare- I throw more light on the road without blinding others, so higher output LED spot beams mounted where the OEM fog light lights were. Just make sure they don’t put more light above your normal low beams go. It’s about the best I can do so far. Do everybody a favor and don’t replace your halogens low beams with aftermarket LED bulbs.

A clean windshield is a must for me too.

My truck doesn’t sport fog lights yet (Base trim). So it’s on my wish list to get some in the future. This looks like a great kit to me, as it installs into the factory fog light location:

GMC S1 Dual Fog Pocket Light Kit - GMC 2020-23 Sierra 2500HD/3500HD - Baja Designs - Off-Road LED & Laser Lights | Automotive, Jeep, Truck, UTV, ADV, Dirtbike

The Baja Designs dual S1 Fog Pocket kit for the GMC Sierra 2500/3500 is the perfect mix of high-quality on and off-road performance. Available in Clear or Amber, this kit utilizes the factory fog pocket location to pack two S1 lights on each side,...

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I like that it’s a pair of pods aimed at slightly different angles per bucket. I could use some extra “cornering” light as well, especially on rural roads where I live.

Since you have experience with Spots, would you recommend amber or white for the main, straight-ahead driving light?

 

So fog lights are for scenios where your brights or even low beams can cause glare from snow, fog and even dust. Spot beams are for throwing light far down the road. You’ll want to check your local laws about doing anything lighting related… but I use an amber led bar because windy snow drifts are common where I drive. But for trying to see the road due to a ton of glare from oncoming traffic or just moving at high speeds in pure darkness, I use the spot beams. Personally I used an amber LED 30” light bar under the grill. Then I used higher output LED square pods where the factory fog lights would have been.
This truck is still new to me, already put 20k miles on it since May of 2022. Haven’t had a chance to get to everything I want yet, but my 2011 f150 had this same setup, and it worked great. My only regret was spending big bucks on the amber led light bar. All it has to do is flood amber light, and since I had it installed behind the grill, it wouldn’t send any light above my normal low beams. However the led spotters is where it made sense to spend a bit more money than the cheapos you’d find on Amazon. Beam pattern is pretty important with regards to overall performance, more so than just wattage, candelas or lumens. Hard to put a number on the beam pattern. But try to shop local to get other’s opinions. I don’t think my answer is right for someone living near a city, but it works well for me…

 

Actually… this was the kit that I noticed the top & bottom lights are angled slightly differently.

'20-23 GMC 2500/3500 SDHQ Built Dual Fog Light Kit

Our SDHQ Built Fog Light Kit for the 2020-Current GMC 2500 and 3500 is designed to improve your GMC's on and off road lighting. Baja Designs SDHQ-79-1204-S4

sdhqoffroad.com

 

Check out the Morimoto 4-Banger pods from Headlight Revolution (they test and have videos of comparisons). They come in white and amber, several different beam patterns and two different intensities, one of which is DOT approved. I’ve got them on my ’05 2500HD and my ‘09 Freightliner Argosy cabover. Trying to figure out the best way to install a set on my ‘23 Tucson. It has pretty good stock LED headlights, but the design wizards at Hyundai didn’t make any accommodations for fog or driving lights in the front end. Same thing with the Santa Cruz.

 

70% or 80% ceramic window tint and polarized glasses. This has made driving during that transition at dusk much easier on me.

If you don't want to go that route get a decent pair of yellow/amber tinter glasses. Like shooting glasses. They don't offer much tinting but do wonders with the glare and can be work well into dusk/darkness. Cheap tinted glasses are just that, cheap tinted glasses.

My go to before my prescription glasses which are polarized was a pair of $200 costa's from bass pro shop in a soft amber tent. They were absolutely awesome for driving, boating, fishing, atv riding and mowing, wore them for the better part of 17 years before I ended up in prescription glasses.

 

I wear FL-41 tinted glasses for my migraines (scientifically proven to help) and those block out the most harmful blue light wavelengths, especially the wavelengths in which those of us with sensitive brains see the flicker from LEDs and fluorescents (which is what triggers my migraines, which give me vertigo - during a migraine, I even close my eyes before turning a light off at night as the change can bring on the vertigo). I have a doctor's letter for wearing them in my license and passport photos since taking them off for police, TSA, customs, etc. would be harmful to my health (they unfortunately did not prevent a killer migraine when walking past a police car with their flashing LED blue lights at a Christmas stroll one year).

Driving with them at night is good if you have photophobia like I do, thus without them everything is washed out with not much contrast, but if you don't have photophobia, the tint may be too dark and thus the company who makes them tells people not to drive at night with them. They do make a lighter version of the tint for night driving for people who don't have photophobia. You may want to try these. Clear or yellow lenses that claim to be blue-blockers don't work because they don't target the correct wavelengths.

You can get them in prescription lenses, too, which would also help the halos. (Also check your windshield for streaks and scratches, of course.)

Since LED lights can cause health issues like macular degeneration, and adversely affect other conditions like ADHD and Lupus and others, it is best to protect one's eyes as much as possible from them.