Why wearing "driving glasses" is actually harmful

Do not believe everything that is written in advertising sunglasses. Beautiful lens colors, popularly considered good for the eyes, can play tricks on your eyesight.

The average car owner, as a rule, is sure that the classic "driver's glasses" must have yellow or orange lenses. The entire Internet in unison assures us that it is thanks to the yellow “glasses” that the light of oncoming headlights is less blinding at night, and at any time of the day, objects around when viewed through chicken-colored lenses appear clearer and more contrasting.

How objective such a representation is is a rather controversial question, too much here is “tied” to individual perception.

But any ophthalmologist will definitely tell you that the yellow color of the lenses excites the nervous system and increases intraocular pressure. For a surgeon, for example, such glasses are categorically contraindicated. And for the driver, on whose actions the lives of hundreds of people around depend, for some reason, they are recommended ...

In fact, the very concept of "driving glasses" is nothing more than a marketing gimmick. There are sunglasses useful for vision and harmful, otherwise it is not given. The best colors of their lenses for the eyes lie in the region of gray, brown, green and black. These goggles block out as much light as possible.

The most harmful lens color in sunglasses is blue. It does not block the ultraviolet (UV) part of sunlight, creating the illusion of darkening. The pupil from this opens wider and invisible UV radiation burns out the retina.

Therefore, as a truly sunglasses, it makes sense to consider only glasses with a special coating that absorbs ultraviolet - with the so-called UV filter. Moreover, it is very desirable that their lenses be with the effect of polarization. Thanks to it, glare is removed, tiring eyesight.

Equally insidious are glasses with uneven lens tinting, when, for example, the top of the glass is darker than the bottom. A short walk in them will not cause problems, but driving for several hours can lead to severe eye fatigue when “everything floats” in the field of view.

In fact, it is better to use sunglasses in general less often. Wear them only when the sun is really mercilessly blinding. If you wear dark glasses almost constantly, your eyes will become unaccustomed to reacting to bright light correctly and will no longer cope with it. In this case, wearing glasses will no longer be a convenience, but a vital necessity.