Are Yellow Glasses Better for Night Driving?

Do you like to wear your sunglasses at night so you can see the light that's right before your eyes? Sunglass Rob and SportRx Optician Tyler share their thoughts on the pros & cons of wearing yellow lenses during your nightly commute.

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[texxs]

The a-holes with the brighter lights aren't annoying, they are dangerous.

[Naedlus]

I want to say that yellow lenses allow me to see greater contrast in colours, more than it does make the details brighter, allowing me to notice more details at lower levels of light than normal.

[English.Andy]

I’m a night time truck driver & use them. Even sitting higher up bright headlights are a pain. These yellow lens with anti glare coating definitely take the edge off it.

I feel it gives better contrast & slightly better depth of field. Also if its rained I’ve noticed it stop on coming headlights reflecting off the wet shiny road.

[BergerVongSchlauigkeitHer]

I've noticed that the best thing to help with glare during night driving is thoroughly cleaning your windows.
And I mean *thoroughly*, until you can't drag a tissue across it by hand anymore because there is absolutely zero grease left on the glass. The result will blow your mind.
And also, you'll have to repeat that every couple of weeks because grease is in the air everywhere.

[D__Lee]

Last year, I had cataract surgery. Afterwards, night driving became a problem especially in rain and snow. The glare and halos were intense. I experimented with different yellow driving glasses. Eventually, I found a company on eBay that sold yellow tinted replacement lenses for Oakley Holbrook (which I have several pairs) and, so far, those have been the best for night driving (or everyday driving). I recently bought the Oakley Holbrook gaming glasses which has a lot less yellow tint and they are my computer and TV glasses. I tired them for night driving and they also worked for me.

[PGNorthernBC]

I can’t live without my yellow lenses. When it’s dusk and especially when roads are wet yellow lenses help to mute glare and make everything else pop and stand out clearer. It puts less stress on my eyes and in a sense I feel safer driving with them on.

[DemonLordGamingAC]

I am a very nearsighted person. I need glasses to read anything over 15cm away from my face. My prescription glasses have Zeiss lenses with Blueprotect + AR filter + Transitions. And yet I CANNOT see shit while driving at night when cars come on oncoming traffic. Glare for me is a real deal, and I just bought a yellow Clip-on pair of lenses that claimed to be polarized, however they're not. They're just yellow lenses. I just got them so I didn't have a chance to wear them at night. Even during the day, wearing them took a significant strain off my eyes. They don't have AR coating though, and that is a bit of an issue. I still have to try them out on the night to see if there is any improvement.

[iancraig]

I find yellow to be great on very grey days or misty days. It gives the ‘impression’ of brightness but makes certain things ‘pop’ out like trees etc. similar to brown but lightened up. Also keeps UV at bay on grey days.

I also have them polarised which knocks down glare from puddles! Not much advantage for me at night. Great at dusk. Better for me than Maui Jim HT in very low light.

[arlenenepinak]

i bought the $10 special from Cnd Tire and its now snowing lots, yes, it totally helps define colors apart from the snow. i haven't tried night time driving yet.

[texxs]

And yes, we WANT less light to come through, our headlights are more than enough and we need to block some of the light from incoming traffic.

[gryphon]

well in both demos you had the yellow tinted glasses on the right. They should have been on the left for good comparison at some point because it is the glare from the oncoming headlights on the left that is the issue.

[tonyr]

I find that computer blue light glasses help with the led headlight glare.

I can tell you about my experience, well not driving but at night . I wear yellow tinted lenses all day because at my work we have very intense lights and they help me with that.

Then, at night I sometimes go inline skating and then on the walk home I get to experience the yellow lenses in low light conditions.

I feel that the contrast is enhanced and that the tint is less noticeable than during the day. Also The road texture gets some pop which I like.

I've sometimes found myself staring at some trees at night (where there's some street lightning available ) cause I feel that I can 'see better' each individual leaf.

[gilbs]

This comment is from personal experience--used to wear RB Ambermatics but i can't explain scientifically. When I let more yellow pass through, feels that I filter out (reduce) most other colors from any scene. For me, it's anything blue that bothers me while driving as it does from TV screens. It may be different with every individual though.

[gearjammer]

As a truck driver let me tell you I just picked up a pair of these yellow lenses They turn those awful bright white headlights yellow which makes them tolerable Do not listen to these fools they do make a difference

[prettyeyesclef]

I hope they help because the lights behind me are just massive. I can't tell if that's the car behind me or on the next lane and I just get scared. An for cars coming from the other day, my view is just fkn white from the shinyness on the glass and I can't see the road. I get hella scared

[MyName-skwl]

I agree with the anti glare, for me, it’s not the brightness, it’s the glare that bothers me, for example, if I drive on a rural road with minimal light, i rely desperately on my headlights that are illuminating the way and are shining away from me and not towards me, and dimming that light would be catastrophic, yet as I encounter a car driving opposite of me, even thought those headlights are providing more light for my blind self, they cause an intense beam of light shooting directly into my eyes, a glare that causes me to not be able to see anything but the direct beam of light, it makes it way more dangerous, so if I could get some glasses that can defuse that direct light without compromising clarity, that would be best

[dougharlow]

My question to you is then why do guys in low light shotgun clay tournaments use a shooting glasses that are yellow. To my knowledge they are yellow because this color is known to filter out blue UV rays of light. Yellow lenses are known to improve a person's ability to see and discern objects, as well as boost depth perception and create ease of focus. Thanks

[ColinMill]

I think there are a great many factors in this and I'll give a list of just some of them.
Research conducted by the Road Research Lab in the UK way back in the 1960s found that visual acuity was about 3% better using selective yellow headlights compared to the, then normal, non-halogen "white". (interestingly, this showed the French had been right all along with their yellow headlight)
In increasing headlight luminous intensity from the legal limit of 1650 lumen to 3000 lumen for HID there was an increase in colour temperature meaning that much of the extra light is at the blue end of the spectrum. However, the things you really need to pick out at night (like tail-lights and reflectors of cars and bikes, indicators etc) are at the red end of the spectrum. If the yellow tints are well designed they should give near 100% transmission outside the blue end of the spectrum meaning that a red light should be almost as bright at it would be without the tint in the way. However, since the tint reduces the intensity of the blue-white HID/LED headlights the all-important contrast ratio between the red light you need to see and the headlight dazzle you don't is improved.
Perhaps the latter is the reason the reviews of yellow tint night driving lenses is overwhelmingly positive.
One final point is that those driving with halogen headlights will have less blue in any return light back from the surrounding objects and so the yellow tint will be overall less attenuating for them than for those with HIDs. Also, high-pressure sodium lighting is still very common (at least here in the UK) and will be almost unattenuated by a properly designed yellow tint lens.

[practicalguy]

Polarized lenses can reduce glare but all are too dark. I'd want AR coated and some very light tint with polarized lenses even if it tool only 25% of the glare away at night.