Tips For Driving At Night

1.Paying attention to the light levels in your own car: 

Most drivers do not know this or understand this principle, but when the indoor lights of the car are turned on, it compromises your eyesight when you are driving in the night and causes fatigue because your eyes are trying to adjust to the lights outside and you would just be making things harder on yourself. 

2. Protect your eyes from the sun during the day: 

It would be advisable to wear sunglasses during the day. That way, your eyes are protected and not strained especially when you need them at night. 

If you are one who drives at night a lot and you struggle with night driving, you have to protect your eyes during the day to be better able to have them fresh and focused at night. Too much bright light during the day automatically impairs night vision and causes difficulty, so protect the pupils when there’s sunlight.

3. Adjust Car headlight

Oftentimes, especially when the car is brand new, the headlight may be uneven or unbalanced. So, it is best to be corrected by aligning your car headlights properly so the lights from your car can be cast the perfect way. 

However, it is also important to make sure they are not too bright as to blind oncoming vehicles. You should also clean and restore your headlight regularly. Even when the lights are aimed correctly, they cast a dim glow when something like dirt or grime is blocking the lights, best way to do that is with Headlights restoration kit so fix that by cleaning thoroughly and adjusting accordingly. 

If you have an old car with a plastic lens, it may have been subject to oxidation and this is a huge problem for you especially when you are driving at night. You should consider restoring them with a headlight restoration kit or know when to replace the headlight bulbs. 

4. De-Focus your eyes:

One of the reasons you are distracted by lights when driving at night is because that is what you focus on. What you need to do is to look around and focus on the whole road rather than just the incoming vehicles. 

The way the eyes are structured is such that, like a camera, it zooms in on what we focus on and highlights it more, but when we look around, the eyes have a wider scope of the surroundings and see both light and darkness. It’ll be easier to focus when you are not just looking at the blinding headlights approaching you. 

Here are some additional tips for your consideration

• Take supplements that help boost eye sights
• Wear night driving glasses. It’ll help deflect the lights coming in and improve focus
• Stop staring directly  into oncoming headlights
• Gently massage your eyes before going out at night.