Sunglasses - Yellow Night Drivers

[REMINGTON700]

Anyone have experience with the yellow lens "night driving" sunglasses? The claims are that they chiefly reduce reflections & glare at night, in the rain, fog, snow etc., improving your view.

I ordered a pair to try out, becuase if they do even half of what they claim, they may be useful to me.

On a side note, found a pair of reader sunglasses with the reader pane in the lower corner. They work great for reading the Nav/phone etc in the car. Should have had a pair in my car years ago.
Fiore La Jolla Bifocal Polarized Reading Sunglasses TR90 Readers for Men and Women

 

[2011etec]

Though its not glasses I bought my niece one of those flip down sunshades and she absolutely swears by it.My pops has the glasses your asking about an he loves them,expecially for early morning driving into the sun.Canadian Tire has tons of them up here.

 

[KingBubba]

In my visit to France many years ago, I was surprised to see that all cars had yellow headlights. They annoyed me, but when I asked about them, I was told that they made it easier on the eyes.

 

[hjames]

I've been wearing yellow lensed glasses since the mid 90s -
They do help increase contrast in many conditions.

 

[MaxxVolume]

From a technical point of view, ANY tinted lens which reduces the amount of light passing through it is detrimental to night driving, where you need every last percent of lumens to prevent accidents and other mishaps. This applies mainly to a dark ambient light situation. Having headlights coming into your field of vision changes everything....at this point, those lightly-tinted yellow lenses actually would help, especially if they also have an anti-reflective coating applied to them.

So, cutting to the chase, there is no "one size fits all" solution to the problem....it`s a crapshoot no matter how you shake it out....

 

[Christian B]

I've been wearing yellow lensed glasses since the mid 90s -
They do help increase contrast in many conditions.

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What she said. ^^ There's a reason they make yellow tinted glasses for target shooting.

My preferred sunglasses are a darker amber, and I find them to be better for my eyes than the dark green variety. I can wear these and have good vision from before sunrise until well after sunset. They are too dark for night use.

 

[REMINGTON700]

I have been on the lookout for a really dark pair of glasses for awhile. The type you can use on rare occasion for heading into/looking directly into the sun.

The fog aspect of the yellow lens caught my attention. Years ago I had a terrifying white knuckle freeway drive through Los Angeles/San Bernardino one early morning, in the worst nightmare fog that can be imagined. Don't know how much yellow would have helped, but I sure would have loved to find out.

Reminds me of a story my dad told about his buddy driving home from Douglas Aircraft in Long Beach in a nasty fog. He knew the route home well and crept along, pulled into his driveway, got out and there was a car right behind him in the driveway. Driver rolled down his window and yelled out... what did you stop for? You were doing great!

 

[2011etec]

As I said earlier for my niece who works right at when sunup is the worst,those flip down as seen on tv visors work great.https://www.reviewxl.com/accessories/tac-visor-review/

 

[REMINGTON700]

Good idea 2011etec, I hadn't considered that option, and I like it.

 

[NH-MAN]

From a technical point of view, ANY tinted lens which reduces the amount of light passing through it is detrimental to night driving, where you need every last percent of lumens to prevent accidents and other mishaps. This applies mainly to a dark ambient light situation. Having headlights coming into your field of vision changes everything....at this point, those lightly-tinted yellow lenses actually would help, especially if they also have an anti-reflective coating applied to them.

So, cutting to the chase, there is no "one size fits all" solution to the problem....it`s a crapshoot no matter how you shake it out....

Thats true in a sense but not true, when my Lyme is acting up my eyes get sensitive to light and car lights hurt.. I have a very expensive pair of polarized sunglasses i will wear driving at night.. Although everything is darker, if you were on a dark road you can actually pick out objects on the side of the road. If there was a dark figure off the side of the road I would see it with my polarized glasses as a dark mass. I would not be able to see it with my regular glasses. Its weird and kind of uncomfortable at first and although it seems like you cant see as well I actually can. Note, this is on a dark road all by yourself which is the worst condition for driving with sunglasses at night.

To the OP any good polarized glasses will help.

 

[MaxxVolume]

Thats true in a sense but not true, when my Lyme is acting up my eyes get sensitive to light and car lights hurt.. I have a very expensive pair of polarized sunglasses i will wear driving at night.. Although everything is darker, if you were on a dark road you can actually pick out objects on the side of the road. If there was a dark figure off the side of the road I would see it with my polarized glasses as a dark mass. I would not be able to see it with my regular glasses. Its weird and kind of uncomfortable at first and although it seems like you cant see as well I actually can. Note, this is on a dark road all by yourself which is the worst condition for driving with sunglasses at night.

To the OP any good polarized glasses will help.

For YOU, this may be a good solution, but for most of the population, definitely not ! Most eye care professionals advise against the use of any type of tinted lenses for night driving.
I would advise you to not spread false and misleading (and potentially dangerous) information.

 

[gadget73]

In my visit to France many years ago, I was surprised to see that all cars had yellow headlights. They annoyed me, but when I asked about them, I was told that they made it easier on the eyes.

selective yellow headlights were the law in France for a long time. Selective yellow is a particular filter, it removes the blue and purple part of the spectrum which is what causes glare to our eyes. I can see where selective yellow glasses would help.

and yes, strictly speaking it does cut down on the light level but blues and purples are where the eye is least sensitive anyway so real world effect is pretty minimal.

 

[KeninDC]

I would advise you to not spread false and misleading (and potentially dangerous) information.

Tell that to Corey Hart.

 

[Mystic]

In my visit to France many years ago, I was surprised to see that all cars had yellow headlights. They annoyed me, but when I asked about them, I was told that they made it easier on the eyes.

Still do and they are easier on the eyes. Same in Germany, Luxembourg, Belgium, Swizerland and Holland. Don't know about Italy, Spain, and Portugul; they probably drive w/ the lights switched off @ night, given their love of chaos. Don't know about the Brits either, but they drive on the wrond side ofthe road so does it matter?

 

[NH-MAN]

For YOU, this may be a good solution, but for most of the population, definitely not ! Most eye care professionals advise against the use of any type of tinted lenses for night driving.
I would advise you to not spread false and misleading (and potentially dangerous) information.

I am not spreading false or misleading information, maybe to you it is. I dont recommend wearing some crap sunglasses at night either. I spoke about the fact they are a high quality polarized lens being what helps. My glasses are not even that dark, they dont have to be, its they fact they are polarized that makes the difference as they filter out crap light.

Did you know that people can get prescriptions to get the front window of their car legally tinted?

 

[arts]

I have an old pair of yellow-tinted Bushnell shooting glasses that were also useful at night under oncoming glare conditions.

 

[Tom Brennan]

Don't know about the Brits either, but they drive on the wrond side ofthe road so does it matter?

The story goes about, and it's probably nonsense, that people drive on the right side of the road because in antique times a knight or warrior had his shield on his left side, thus using the right side of the road his shield faced people going the other way giving him better protection.

My brother made the observation that if true this meant the English, violent and piratical race that they are, used the left side of the road because they were more interested in striking a blow than being protected from one. Interestingly, the Japanese also use the left side of the road.

 

[Mystic]

The story goes about, and it's probably nonsense, that people drive on the right side of the road because in antique times a knight or warrior had his shield on his left side, thus using the right side of the road his shield faced people going the other way giving him better protection.

My brother made the observation that if true this meant the English, violent and piratical race that they are, used the left side of the road because they were more interested in striking a blow than being protected from one. Interestingly, the Japanese also use the left side of the road.

As the mechanic @ "Wally's" in Mayberry used to say, "Huh. Makes ya think."