Night driving can be safety issue

More than half of traffic accidents happen at night, yet we only spend 25% of our time driving at night.  The risk of accidents also increases as we get older. This is due to changes in contrast sensitivity as our eyes adjust from daylight to dusk. During dusk, car headlights are not effective as the sunlight can directly strike your eyes, illuminating the foreground and background reducing contrast on the road.

There are other factors distracting your visibility on the road that adds to the stress of night driving. Night driving for spectacle wearers is more complex; changes in viewing distances, eye movements and reflections off spectacle lenses can all cause distractions. Pupil size which is larger at night, causes visual distortions for multifocal wearers as well as the single lens wearers.

Zeiss have introduced spectacle lenses for safer driving called DRIVE SAFE lenses. These lenses have three essential features to address your visual challenges:

• Luminance design technology: Manages how your pupil reacts to the light intensity of the surroundings especially when light directly strikes the eye
• Zeiss Duravision UV drive safe coating: Relieves glare and bright light conditions, especially the blue light spectrum directed off car headlights
• Drive safe lens design: Optimized lens design to account for your head and eye movements