1998 Pontiac Firebird Owner's Manual - Page 185

Here are some tips night driving. on 0 Drive defensively. Don't drink and drive. Adjust yourinside rearview mirrorto reduce the glare from headlamps behind you. 0 0 have less trouble adjusting to night. if you're But driving, don't wear sunglasses at night. They cut may down on glare from headlamps, but they make a lot also of things invisible. You can be temporarily blinded approaching by headlamps. It can take a second or two, or even several seconds, for your eyes to readjust to the dark. When you 0 Since you can't see as well, you may need to are facedwith severe glare (as from driver who a slow down and keep more space between you doesn't lower the high beams, orvehicle with a and other vehicles. misaimed headlamps), slow down little. Avoid staring a 0 Slow down, especially higher speed roads. on Your directly into the approaching headlamps. headlamps can light up only so much road ahead. Keep your windshield and all the glasson your vehicle 0 In remote areas, watch animals. for clean -- inside and out. Glareat night is made much worse by dirt on the glass. Even the inside of the glass 0 If you're tired, pull off the roadin a safe place can build up a film caused by dust. Dirty glass makes and rest. lights dazzle and flash more than clean glass would, Night Vision making the pupils your eyes contract repeatedly. of No one can see as well night as in the daytime. But as Remember that your headlamps at light up far less of a we get older these differences increase. 50-year-old A roadway when you are a turn or curve. Keep your in driver may require at least twice as much light to see the eyes moving; that way, it's easier to pick out dimly same thing at night as a 20-year-old. lighted objects. Just your headlamps should be as checked regularly for proper aim,so should your eyes can What you do in the daytime also affect your night be examined regularly. Some drivers suffer from night vision. For example, you spend the day bright if in blindness -- the inabilityto see in d m light -- and i sunshine you are wise to wear sunglasses. eyes will Your aren't even aware of it. 4-16 ~~