1995 Oldsmobile 88 Owner's Manual - Page 174

Keep your windshield and all the glass on your vehicle clean -- inside and out. Glare at night is made much No one can see as well at night as in daytime. Butas the worse by dirt on the glass. Even the inside the glass of we get older these differences increase.50-year-old A can build up a film caused by dust. Dirty glass makes driver may require at twice as much light to see the lights dazzle and flash more than clean glass would, least same thing at night as a 20-year-old. making the pupils your eyes contract repeatedly. of What you do in thedaytime can also affect your night Remember that your headlamps light far less of a up vision. For example, you spend the day in bright if roadway when you are a turn or curve. Keep your in sunshine you are wise to wear sunglasses. Your eyes will eyes moving; thatway, it's easier to pick out dimly have less trouble adjusting to night. Butyou're if lighted objects. Just as your headlamps should be driving, don't wear sunglasses at night. They may cut checked regularly for proper so should youreyes aim, down on glarefrom headlamps, but they also make a lot be examined regularly. Some drivers suffer from night of things invisible. blindness -- the inability tosee in dim light -- and You can be temporarily blinded by approaching lights. It can take a second or two, or even several seconds, for your eyes to readjust to dark. When you are the faced with severe glare (as from a driver who doesn't lower the high beams, a vehicle with misaimed headlamps), or slow down a little. Avoid staring directly into the approaching lights. aren't even aware it. of Night Vision 4-16