Best Night Driving Glassses Online
Night driving glasses are special glasses that may help you to see better at night while you’re driving. They’re usually yellow-tinted. They often have an anti-reflective coating. Some night driving glasses are also polarized. At Eyewear UK, you can get yellow-tinted, anti-reflecting coating or polarized night driving glasses with your prescription.
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Many eye care professionals strongly recommend glasses with an anti-reflective (AR) coating for night driving. This ultra-thin film, made from zircon and silicon, reduces internal reflections in the lenses. Unlike sunglasses or self-darkening lenses, which block some light, AR-coated glasses actually transmit more light – about 8 percent more. This improves vision at night and helps distinguish fine details during the day. Highway patrol troopers have reported better night and day vision and reduced nighttime glare with AR-coated lenses for night driving glasses.
Sheer Vision is an enhanced polycarbonate plastic lens material with a unique coating applied to both the front and back surfaces. The coating creates a unique physical characteristic on the lens that resembles an oily residue or a drop of water in a puddle. This unique coating eliminates the glare from oncoming headlights while the enhanced polycarbonate material blocks the harmful UV light rays. These UV lights are normally very dangerous to the retina.
Yellow lenses, also called Amber by many brands. Because of its ability to make your environment appear brighter, AR-coated driving glasses are commonly used in low light conditions. Like orange, copper, and brown lenses, it effectively blocks much of the blue light that can cause haze or reduce sharpness, thereby enhancing contrast and depth perception. These non-prescription anti-glare night driving glasses are not recommended for bright light conditions or areas where accurate colour recognition is critical.
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Why Should You Wear Night Driving Glasses?
If you frequently drive at night and experience eye fatigue or have a hard time seeing in low light conditions, you may want to consider a pair of night driving glasses. Serving a similar purpose as sunglasses during the day, night driving glasses use yellow lenses to help reduce reflections and glare from street lights and oncoming headlights. Essentially, the yellow tint from these glasses filters blue light to improve nighttime visibility. In addition, most night driving glasses will have an anti-reflective coating on their lenses, which also aid with reducing reflections from light.
What are night driving glasses?
Night driving glasses have yellow-tinted lenses that range in shade from light yellow to amber. Some night driving glasses also have an anti-reflective coating.
Night driving glasses reduce glare by scattering and filtering out blue light. Blue light is the part of the light spectrum that has the shortest wavelength and the largest amount of energy. Unlike types of light with longer wavelengths, blue light is more likely to cause glare when it enters the eye.
Night driving glasses have been manufactured for several decades. These yellow-tinted glasses were originally marketed to hunters as shooting glasses. They continue to be popular with hunters because they sharpen the contrast of flying birds against the sky during overcast or cloudy conditions.
Do night driving glasses work?
Yellow lenses of night driving glasses reduce the amount of light coming into the eye, diminishing visibility. At night, this can be detrimental, rather than helpful.
Night driving glasses are available in many shades of yellow and amber. The darkest lenses filter out the most glare but also, the largest amount of light, making it hard to see in dim or dark conditions.
How Can You Tell If Night Driving Glasses Work?
It is possible to test how efficient these lenses are for you. The yellow tint, along with other colours, actually helps increase contrast. Anti-reflective coatings help with glare. The key with these tinted lenses is to enhance contrast without reducing the amount of light entering the eye. The transmissibility of the lens is important so that there is enough light being transmitted through the lens and into the eye.
How to See Better at Night with Night Driving Glasses?
Although night driving glasses may actually hinder your ability to see in low-light conditions, there are several things you can do to see better at night, including:
- Clean your windshield. Dirt and dust can make it harder to see. Don't forget to clean the inside too.
- Clean your headlights. Dirt covering your headlights can make them appear dimmer.
- Maintain your windshield wipers. Replace them at regular intervals and keep them clean.
- Clean your glasses. Use a microfiber cleaning cloth to make sure your glasses are clear and easy to see through.
- Dim the dashboard lights. This reduces eye strain and helps you see better at night.
- Visit your eye doctor often. Keep your glasses or contacts prescription up-to-date, and visit your eye doctor when you have a concern, or at their recommended interval.
- Use an anti-reflective coating on your glasses. If you wear glasses already, you can get an anti-reflective coating to help you see better at night. The coating reduces glare from lights at night.
