1998 Pontiac Bonneville Owner's Manual - Page 189

Here are some tips on night driving. 0 0 0 Drive defensively. down on glare from headlamps, but theyalso make alot of things invisible. Don't drink and drive. Adjust your inside rearview mirror reduce the to glare from headlamps behind you. Since you can't seeas well, you may need to you slow down and keep more space between and other vehicles. Slow down, especially on higher speed roads. Your headlamps canlight up onlyso much road ahead. In remote areas, watch animals. for If you're tired, pulloff the road in a safe place and rest. 0 You can be temporarily blinded by approaching or headlamps. It can take a second or two, even several seconds, for your eyes to readjust to the dark. When you from are faced with severe glare (as a driver who doesn't lowerthe high beams,or a vehicle with misaimed headlamps), slow down little. Avoid staring a directly into the approaching headlamps. 0 0 0 Night Vision No one can seeas well at night as the daytime. But as in A we get older these differences increase.SO-year-old driver may require at least twice much light to the as see same thing at night as a 20-year-old. What you doin the daytimecan also affect your night vision. For example, if you spend the day in bright sunshine you are wise to wear sunglasses. Your eyes will have less trouble adjusting night. Butif you're to driving, don't wear sunglasses night. They may cut at all Keep your windshield and the glass on your vehicle at clean -- inside and out. Glare night is made much worse by dirt on the glass. Even the inside of the glass can build up a film caused by dust. Dirty glass makes than lights dazzle and flash more clean glass would, making the pupils of your eyes contract repeatedly. Remember that your headlamps light far lessof a up roadway when you are in turn or curve. Keep your a to eyes moving; that way, it's easierpick out dimly lighted objects.Just as your headlamps should be checked regularlyfor proper aim, so should your eyes be examined regularly. Some drivers suffer night from blindness -- the inability tosee in dim light -- and aren't even aware it. of 4-16