Night driving glasses - anti-glare

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I’m not sure I agree with critics of wearing (the correct) tinted glasses at night.
The dazzling glare from many LED lights on modern tall vehicles is in itself blinding enough to make anything in the surrounding shadows even less visible than it might normally be.
The ultimate solution has to lie with car manufacturers - some sort of auto-dimming technology has to be feasible (even upmarket bicycle lights have it).
 
A BMW we bought new in 2004 is now on its 3rd or 4th screen. I am convinced that the replacement screens chip and scratch more easily than the original.
Only a minimum amount of money has been usefully spent on resurfacing roads during the last 20 years. Even less has been spent on cleaning them. Nearly all the spoil from potholes is left to be flung at your windscreen.
 
Only a minimum amount of money has been usefully spent on resurfacing roads during the last 20 years. Even less has been spent on cleaning them. Nearly all the spoil from potholes is left to be flung at your windscreen.
And the cut-down of materials used to resurface the roads in the last decade plus the heavier traffic.
We never used to see this amount of potholes
 
The ultimate solution has to lie with car manufacturers - some sort of auto-dimming technology has to be feasible (even upmarket bicycle lights have it).
One of our cars  has had that. It worked OK until I fitted an auxiliary light bar at the front, when the automatic dip stopped working.
 
Something that you should also check is the windscreen itself. I see that cleaning has been mentioned earlier but another factor is how scratched the screen is.

My other half has an 18yr old polo (still going strong) but something we've noticed is that at night the windscreen is so scratched with micro scratches that it catches the light of headlights and is producing glare on the windscreen itself. I think it is from years of being ice-scraped and is the reason I won't scrape my car windscreen.

I've tried polishing it but there are just too many scratches and they don't polish out. I'm going to buy a new windscreen.
I had this on a previous car (wife's) and discovered that the scratches were partly inside and caused by wiping the screen with her ring hand which sometimes nudged the screen and stones scratch glass
 
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