Are we OK with how bright headlights are getting?

[MossRoad]

I don't have cataracts (yet), but I'm so far resisting the notion of bifocals. In brighter light I don't have trouble reading, but in dim light I don't get to take advantage of the pinhole camera effect of contracted pupils (obviously not entirely a pinhole but focusing is considerably easier with contracted iris than expanded) and so can't read so well.

I have trifocals. Bottom lens stops about 16" out. Mid lens goes from there to about 3'. Main lens goes to infinity. Everything is crystal clear.

My mom was an artist. She had custom upside down trifocals for painting, with the closeup lens on top, mid lens, then main lens on bottom. Think about standing in front of an easel and having to tip your head back everytime you wanted to see the canvas. Your neck would get pretty sore. Upside down allows your neck to stay at neutral position when facing your painting. It makes sense.

 

[Torvy]

I really only need readers at this point. I was blessed with 20/15 vision until my mid-40s.

I did get a pair of bifocal glasses, mostly for formal occasions. Very minor correction on top.

I don't know how you deal with trifocal. Bifocals are annoying enough. I'd rather just switch glasses.

I have a pair of dark tinted readers for when I'm the passenger. I rarely need them, but when I do, they sure are nice.

Back to headlights. I think sometimes people just get annoyed easily.

On a divided highway, I don't think lights need to be dimmed for oncoming traffic. Laws vary by state on that.

There are a lot of different state laws on when headlights are required and where high beams are permitted. Also a lot of variation on when you can use your hazard lights.

 

[DarkBlack]

On a divided highway, I don't think lights need to be dimmed for oncoming traffic. Laws vary by state on that.

Many of the current and recent vehicles sold are equipped with automatic dimming headlights, and where the median between highways is sufficient, they don’t dim for cars going the opposite direction, so I don’t know how or even if, police still ticket for not dimming, in those situations

 

[MossRoad]

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I don't know how you deal with trifocal. Bifocals are annoying enough. I'd rather just switch glasses.

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I used to carry magnifiers in my pocket, but got tired of constantly having to change them. The trifocals are perfect for me.

Imagine sitting in your car, the steering wheel is in the lower lens, the instruments and dash are in the middle lens and the rest of the world are in the upper lens.

With bifocals, I have to compromise some close up or mid range... can't have both.

 

[MossRoad]

I've noticed our Subaru won't auto-dim the high beams for oncoming traffic on left-hand curves on divided highways. It will on right-hand curves. Makes sense, as the cars aren't in front of you on a left-hand curve, but they'd be looking right at you on a right.

 

[Torvy]

Curves on divided aren't really a big deal to me. If you're on the outside, your beams aren't really hitting the opposing traffic at all.

If you're on the inside, your beams are hitting the side, not directly in the driver's vision.

It is also a much shorter time compared to a straitaway.

 

[Torvy]

I used to carry magnifiers in my pocket, but got tired of constantly having to change them. The trifocals are perfect for me.

Imagine sitting in your car, the steering wheel is in the lower lens, the instruments and dash are in the middle lens and the rest of the world are in the upper lens.

With bifocals, I have to compromise some close up or mid range... can't have both.

I hear you, it just doesn't work for me. In theory, it sounds great. I just end up not being able to see anything.

 

[MossRoad]

I hear you, it just doesn't work for me. In theory, it sounds great. I just end up not being able to see anything.

Sounds like me when I tried progressive lenses... I got queasy and almost got in a wreck becauese I couldn't adjust my head fast enough for the rearview mirrors. I turned around and went back to the optometrist. He told me to give them time. I said I was about to throw up. So that's when I went to the trifocals.

I don't want to get eye surgery, for fear of them messing up my vision, which I'm really happy with, but a few of my wife's relatives have had it and are super happy with not needing glasses.

 

[Oaktree]

Sounds like me when I tried progressive lenses... I got queasy and almost got in a wreck becauese I couldn't adjust my head fast enough for the rearview mirrors. I turned around and went back to the optometrist. He told me to give them time. I said I was about to throw up. So that's when I went to the trifocals.

I don't want to get eye surgery, for fear of them messing up my vision, which I'm really happy with, but a few of my wife's relatives have had it and are super happy with not needing glasses.

I've had progressives for about 10 years now and love them. Took a little getting used to, but not much more so than a new prescription. Had contacts from my early 30s thru my mid 50s, they took longer to get used to than the progressive lenses. Had to give them up when I developed astigmatism in my 50s.

I've had bad eyesight ever since I was a kid, thick cokebottle lenses. It did keep me out of the service back in the Vietnam era.

 

[bigtiller]

I went from regular (no script) safety glasses to progressive safety glasses at work. I operated an all-terrain forklift. It was a miserable time for a few weeks getting used to them. They made me feel like I was getting carsick.

A coworker had his readers on a band around his neck and his see-ers on his nose and could switch them out pretty fast. I wish I would have tried that.