Here are some tips on night driving.
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Drive defensively.
Don’t drink and drive.
Adjust your inside rearview mirror to reduce the
glare from headlamps behind you.
Since you can’t
see
as well, you may need
to
slow
down
and keep more space between you and
other vehicles.
Slow down, especially
on
higher speed roads. Your
headlamps can
light
up
only
so
much
road ahead.
In remote areas, watch
for
animals.
If
you’re tired, pull
off
the
road
in
a safe place
and
rest.
Night
Vision
No
one
can
see
as
well
at
night as in the daytime. But as
we get older these differences increase.
A
50-year-old
driver may require at least twice as much light to see
the
same
thing
at
night
as
a 20-year-old.
What you do in the daytime can
also
affect your night
vision.
For
example,
if
you spend
the
day in bright
sunshine
you
are wise to wear sunglasses.
Your
eyes will
have less trouble adjusting to night. But if you’re
driving, don’t wear sunglasses at night. They may cut
down on glare
from
headlamps, but they also
make
a
lot
of things invisible.
You
can
be
temporarily blinded by approaching
headlamps.
It
can take a second or two, or even several
seconds, for your eyes to readjust to
the
dark. When
you
are faced with severe glare
(as
from a driver who doesn’t
lower the high beams, or a vehicle with misaimed
keadlamps), slow down
a
little. Avoid staring directly
into
the approaching headlamps.
Keep your windshield and all the glass on your vehicle
clean
--
inside and out. Glare at night is made much
worse
by
dirt
on
the
glass. Even the inside
of
the glass
can build up
a
film caused
by
dust. Dirty
glass
makes
lights dazzle and
flash
more than clean glass would,
making
the
pupils
of
your eyes contract repeatedly.
Remember that your headlamps light
up
far less
of
a
roadway when you are in a turn
or
curve.
Keep
your
eyes moving; that way, it’s easier
to
pick out dimly
lighted objects. Just
as
your headlamps
should
be
checked regularly for proper
aim,
so
should your eyes
be
examined regularly.
Some
drivers suffer from night
blindness
--
the inability to
see
in dim light
--
and
aren’t even aware of it.
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