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[steve6367]

The lights are getting brighter too. HIDs are great, if they are on YOUR car, the lenses are clean, the levelling working, etc... 

Not just car lights - new traffic lights are very bright, LED street lights etc

[Vamps]

The lights are getting brighter too. HIDs are great, if they are on YOUR car, the lenses are clean, the levelling working, etc... 

Not just car lights - new traffic lights are very bright, LED street lights etc

But that is a good thing.......

[pscocoa]

The country lane thing and common sense means you take it easier and the idiots can wait.

What is annoying are those travelling at 30/40 in a 60 zone with an open road before them and where you can not overtake in total safety. Is flashing permitted in these situations?

[The Sheriff]

If driving in the dark is getting more difficult for some of us, its not always the others lights that affect us, it may be our own eyes.
Age related macular degeneration (AMD) is something that creeps up on many of us as we get older and we dont notice it as it happens so slowly.
There is a very simple test you can do to see if you have it, give it a try.
Look at a straight line, say the edge of your kitchen worktop or the top of a wall where it joins the ceiling and from about 10feet away just focus on one bit of it for a few seconds and see if it looks straight with both eyes open, then try it with one eye open.
If it appears to have a wave(s) in it you very likely have AMD.
Obviously any optician would spot it in an eye test, but you may have never been to an optician so would not know you had it.
This condition can and will play havoc with your night vision and ability to deal with glare.
Go on you oldies, try it and let us know the results.
And yes I do have it myself, and No there is no cure.

I have wet amd in my left eye, it started the way you describe but is now far more advanced. I have a black spot in the centre of my vision in the left eye but, fortunately, it is not noticeable with both eyes open. As you say, no cure.

[steve6367]

The lights are getting brighter too. HIDs are great, if they are on YOUR car, the lenses are clean, the levelling working, etc... 

Not just car lights - new traffic lights are very bright, LED street lights etc

But that is a good thing.......

I can't agree - they are too bright. The problem is they are setup to be bright enough during the day in sunlight, which means as you aproach some of the new pedestrian crossings around here at night you can't actually see past the 2 green lights to what might be in the gloom. The LED street lights here have been fitted to existing Columns which are too far apart for LED so as you drive along you now get very bright, dark, very bright etc

Steve

[ted_one]

I agree,around where I live, it's mainly unlit country roads,and many drivers leave it to the last minute to dip their headlights wether they be LED or older style systems,some of the worst offenders are the so called Xenon replacement bulbs from Gaybay,I pass a couple every morning and they are shite!! but then you only have to look at the sheds that they are fitted to.

[Kevin Wood]

The country lane thing and common sense means you take it easier and the idiots can wait.

What is annoying are those travelling at 30/40 in a 60 zone with an open road before them and where you can not overtake in total safety. Is flashing permitted in these situations?

Undoing your raincoat can distract from the driving a little, I find.

Normally, these idiots are going slow because they haven't discovered main beam yet, and can't see more than 20' in front of them.

[hercules]

I remember as a younger gent haha all my driving was at night you know when you finished work home for tea quick bath and then out for the ladies and cruising around(I never drove in the day)now different story I rarely drive at night and can say if I do I don't enjoy it too many bright lights and idiots on the road and in my case it is my eyes I have to wear reading glasses and the focus has slowed down the joys of ageing 

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

As a young man in my prime I don't suffer from from the problems that old-timers such as STMO and Mr Vamps speak of.

[omegod]

Al new lamposts round my way that are so dim even the moths don't bother with them, I really struggle in the dark 

[Sir Tigger KC]

Help may be on it's way for those with AMD. 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2952588/Now-SUPERHERO-vision-Contact-lenses-magnify-words-THREE-FOLD-controlled-winking.html

[05omegav6]

Misread that link slightly

[Sir Tigger KC]

Misread that link slightly

You're such a winker Al! 

[05omegav6]

Wipe on,wipe off

[4x4]

I have also noticed that lights are brighter and more of pain,more so illegally fitted hid kits,lights so far out of aim constant dazzling as they drive towards you,led driving light so bright you cant see the indicator working that is next to it,idiots with 1 headlight but drive with front fogs on or thos where 1 side of the car has no lights what so ever.