I was thinking all the excess glare I was getting at night from headlights coming towards me, especially on realtively dark roads, was a result of my cataracts.
Well now that I've had cataract surgery in one eye (and there is a fantastic improvement in my vision, generally, I could not have imagined seeing so much more) I see it isn't so. While the eye with the new artificial lens gets far less glare than the other, there is still considerable glare from headlights on darker roads.
I think car headlights have simply gotten too bright, and this is a serious problem which should be fixed. You can see that the headlights on older cars, with original non-halogen incandescent bulbs, are far less bright.
Perhaps there should be several levels of brightness, not merely 'high' and 'low', with the middle levels automatically chosen based on ambient brightness.
It also doesn't help that cities ubiquitously are trying to save money by not installing streetlights and/or not maintining them. Likewise with lighted street signs. Cities should not be playing with our safety this way.
Well now that I've had cataract surgery in one eye (and there is a fantastic improvement in my vision, generally, I could not have imagined seeing so much more) I see it isn't so. While the eye with the new artificial lens gets far less glare than the other, there is still considerable glare from headlights on darker roads.
I think car headlights have simply gotten too bright, and this is a serious problem which should be fixed. You can see that the headlights on older cars, with original non-halogen incandescent bulbs, are far less bright.
Perhaps there should be several levels of brightness, not merely 'high' and 'low', with the middle levels automatically chosen based on ambient brightness.
It also doesn't help that cities ubiquitously are trying to save money by not installing streetlights and/or not maintining them. Likewise with lighted street signs. Cities should not be playing with our safety this way.
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