Headlight glare

How do all of you deal with headlight glare? I find it one of the most
annoying things about winter driving or riding whether in the car or on
the bike.

I'm not just talking about the arses who leave their foglights on since
the time visibility was down to 600 yards three and a half months ago, or
the morons who won't switch off their high beam. Just the general dazzle
that comes from headlights.

I have tried the trick of looking down the right side of the car and
following the white line at the side of the road. I do believe that's
what it's meant to be there for but most roads now seem to have no cats
eyes, no white line at the edge of the road and the odd feeble splodge of
white stripe in the middle of the road. When it's raining it becomes
really entertaining as the whole road is just black. IT'S ALL BLACK!

Any tips? Any how to's? Any opticians out there to give me a full clinical
explanation?

I find by the end of the dark wintery nights I'm either getting good at it
or just got used to it and I don't need my new found skills so much.
Life's a bitch, etc.

 

There's a certain strange logic in that one. I might give it a go!

 

I don't have stereoscopic vision and never have had. I essentially focus
with only one eye at a time. The other one doesn't pack up and go to
sleep or take a short break in the Maldives it just doesn't do the
focusing bit. Lived with it all my life and I can judge distances. It's
due to a slight squint.

<cue clarence the cross eyed lion and countless other jibes>

 

Close your eyes.

HTH.

 

Look forward and left, at the bit of the nearside kerb that is
illuminated by your own headlight(s). This tells you where the road
goes, your peripheral vision will tell you where oncoming
traffic/hazards are. If "IT'S ALL BLACK" you probably forgot to switch
your headlight on.

HTH.

 

Dark glasses. The ones you wear on your head, not the smoke coloured
ones you put coffee in.

 

fit a camera flashgun to your handelbars - if you ca'nt beat em join em
i say lol

 

Yellow glasses are supposed to help - Halfords used to sell some for
just that reason. I just look in the rough direction of the oncoming
headlights, on the basis they're on the bit of road I'm heading for.

 

Actually, I close one eye, then I've got the other non blinded eye to
look with when the dazzling hazard is gone.

 

I just shout "For *****'s* sake Nidge, turn the fucking thing DOWN!"

It never works, but it does make me feel better.

--
Nigel - Manufacturer of the "Champion-105" range of rearsets

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
ZZR1100, Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"

 

FFS, I was kidding !

SWK will tell you if I'm wrong, but I believe that you lose stereoscopic
vision when you close one eye ..i.e. you can no longer judge distances. So
the car that brakes in front of you will be the ...aaaarggghhhh, I ran
into the fucker !!!

 

Simply aim for them, but miss.

 

Checks time, school out early today?

<hint> have a look at the FAQ http://www.ukrm.net/faq/index.html
before posting more drivel.

 

I used to know a bloke who flew radio controlled aircraft very well
indeed, despite only having one working eye. So I think the stereo
vision range / depth perception thing is a red-herring.

--
Nigel - Manufacturer of the "Champion-105" range of rearsets

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
ZZR1100, Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"

 

That method works for me, but then I don't have binocular vision to
start with.

 

fit a camera flashgun to your handelbars - if you ca'nt beat em join
em

yeah, soz mate, its top posting you aint into that right!!!

Nah not at school mate i been a biker for years, got a 650 chop wiv a
chromed metz flashgun on each side of the bates headlamp

you should see the cage driving bastards all over the road blind when
they get a good strobe off of them puppy's

 

Calm down there, I knew.

It's better than not being able to see out of both eyes properly. That,
and just don't look at the lights, target fixation and all that.

 

Indeed, I use the same one eye method with flying model planes too. The
field I fly in can have the sun in the wrong place when you're doing a
landing. Still manage to land with one dazzled eye and one non dazzled one.

 

no need mate, theyre just for show at MOT time he he !!

 

I'd assume there's no problem if they're disconnected.

Or are you meaning something other than an MOT?