Driving at night

[mjr]

I like driving at night. We've been goin out Lincolnshire way a lot this year. Its especially nice after all the dashboard chewing psychos have left the roads.

That's not a very polite way to describe Lincolnshire Road "Safety" Partnership

 

[hopless500]

I would have sworn you weren't a day over 21....

Did money change hands ?

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I often get a lift to play Curling by one of my fellow club members, and I used to do this sometimes with a guy well into his '80s (he had to play using a stick that disabled curlers normally use).
This being a winter sport, it is often dark.

Annyway, there we were, hurtling along the M8 one evening and this guy suddenly announces that he'll have to stop driivng at night as his Doctor has told him it is unsafe for him, and indeed he cannot see things like he used too.

'Yeah, thanks!'

Thinks I, just as we round a corner and with no word of a lie, almost crash into the embankment of a turn off....


I arranged alternative transport after that, but the guy has now stopped playing anyway.

 

[Slick]

I know a guy who came up to a line of cars at the lights and he seemed to wait for ages despite the lights changing. He eventually got out to see what the problem was when he realised he'd drawn up behind a line of parked cars. He now gets quite upset when referred to as Mr McGoo.

 

[smutchin]

Hate driving at night.

Hate driving during the day too.

Would much rather ride my bike.

 

[stalagmike]

I am a glasses wearer and I have been getting awful flare from headlamps and street lights when driving home from work now the nights are drawing in.

I am not yet 40 so I am putting this down to the scratches on the acrylic lenses of my glasses. I think they are more scratched than last winter because of the increased amount of cycling I have been doing.

I am now wondering whether to get new glasses or a villa in marbella.

Or polish the scratches out with brasso.

 

[screenman]

I am a glasses wearer and I have been getting awful flare from headlamps and street lights when driving home from work now the nights are drawing in.

I am not yet 40 so I am putting this down to the scratches on the acrylic lenses of my glasses. I think they are more scratched than last winter because of the increased amount of cycling I have been doing.

I am now wondering whether to get new glasses or a villa in marbella.

Or polish the scratches out with brasso.

Do not polish the lens as you will almost certainly change the shape of it, this can cause distortion.

 

[screenman]

We have plenty of drivers turn up here to see my wife and they cannot drive without a passenger as they do the sighting.

The other one often quoted is," I do not dip my headlights until the car coming towards me does theirs", can you see a problem there.

 

[Roadhump]

I'm generally fine driving at night, as long as it is in a town or city, or on a well lit road. I have trouble on country roads without street lights though, usually due to the lights of oncoming vehicles being misaligned or too bright, and it is sometimes difficult to judge where the edge of the road is. If I can, I avoid such roads at night.

 

[stalagmike]

Do not polish the lens as you will almost certainly change the shape of it, this can cause distortion.

Will it though. If it's just light surface scratches?

 

[toffee]

That's very true.

It's not me, it's every one else.


Apparently 42 is the age our eyes start to deteriorate. I blame computers for my eye deterioration. Too much time sat in front of one or on my phone

Mine went at 13 couldn't see the black board from the back of the class.

I couldn't get the car out of the drive if I didn't have my glasses on. Now wear varifocals.

Derek

 

[subaqua]

Will it though. If it's just light surface scratches?

Yes. DAMHIKT :-(
Not brasdo but jewellers rouge. When you could get it.

 

[NorthernDave]

One thing that doesn't help in traffic at night is that most people seem to hold their car on the footbrake when stopped rather than putting the handbrake on, meaning you get a sea of retina searing brake lights in front of you.

 

[screenman]

Will it though. If it's just light surface scratches?

Try it only one way to find out, but each time I have tried it distortion has occured.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

I hate driving in the dark. Love riding in the dark though.