Tunawife hates driving at night because the lights produce too much glare and overwhelm her sight. Different online glasses retailers offer different lens types, I ordered blueblockers once and found them to be slightly better. Other retailers offer specific 'driving' lenses, but I am not sure what means.
Does anyone have experience successfully combatting this?
I would go to a good INDEPENDENT optometrist (meaning not Lens Crafters) and ask them. Costco usually has indies and we've had success with the two we've been to - wife likes the one so much we pay $50 more out of pocket since they're out of network. Even if there is no prescription, they'll give you what they call "plano" lenses with the right treatments on the lenses to stop whatever the glare you're dealing with is.
I get blinded very easy by oncoming traffic. Im wearing yellow sunglasses i got from Amazon labeled as night vision. They work for me.
In reply to mtn :
we have THE BEST optometrist.
However, we won't see him for a while. Maybe I can just call and ask.
I've noticed that glare is awful when I'm tired, but hardly noticeable if I'm well rested. Maybe similar for her?
But yeah I would call and ask the opto - and if they don't sell glasses (mine does, but she actively recommends I buy glasses wherever I like - which I love) then take your prescription to zenni.com and get a few pairs for like $7 each.
I too have this issue and as the season changes into the rainy one and no one around here seems to realize that wet roads + fog lights = light everywhere but where you want it, I need to do something.
I will probably buy the first non wraparound style "night vision" glasses I can find on Amazon unless someone can narrow the field down a bit with a recommendation.
I probably have my rear view tilted to avoid all the tall cars/brodozers/full beam doze-heads/and of course the random wildly mis-adjusted sedans/not forgetting the idiot led lights too, almost all of the time now. 
I just have a set of cheap amber lens sunglasses that I need to start using again now that its getting dark earlier.
I have a set of special prescription driving glasses. Aviator frames, Zeiss lenses with transition auto-darkening (max darkness, it doesn't darken as much inside a car) and antiglare coating, they work well. Got health insurance to pay a big chunk of the cost too!
(annoying) update:
The opt did say that he liked blue blockers for this. I got some for Tunawife.
And she hasn't tried them yet.
IIRC There are a quite few brands that use the selective amber now. The light-yellow shooter style are not as good. The more expensive brands are often produced by the same factories that make the cheapies, so just order a few, or sort to find the clearest ones at a flea market/mallwart. Your optimetrist can make them from many types of lens, and coat them with extra anti-glare and anti-scratch coatings if they do lenses in-house.
Personally, and somewhat conterversially, I find a light polarized lens works well for discrimination of water/ice/shiny asphalt, with the added advantage of softening the blow of the ever-brighter oncoming headlights. Some people find any decrease in light, dangerously too-dark. It can be very personal.
Blue Blockers from Zennis were finally tried last night!
They didn't make a difference for her.
Zenni assures us that they are indeed blue blockers, but I can't see the difference either.
Not helpful on the glasses front but if you and her can train yourselves to drive with the side-view mirrors pointed out far enough that the headlights coming from behind aren't dazzling to the driver, that will help. I've done it, and found the field of vision is actually better, too.
Mrs. VCH will be getting new glasses soon, too, and she also has night driving trouble, so that I usually end up doing any night driving. We'll ask our opto for recommendations, and share if there's anything helpful.
Good luck
nutherjrfan said:I probably have my rear view tilted to avoid all the tall cars/brodozers/full beam doze-heads/and of course the random wildly mis-adjusted sedans/not forgetting the idiot led lights too, almost all of the time now.
Now that NJ only checks emissions on post 95 cars (OBD11 cars) and does no other safety checks, each year brings about more and more misaligned headlights on the road. Thank you, Chris Christie
tuna55 said:Blue Blockers from Zennis were finally tried last night!
They didn't make a difference for her.
Zenni assures us that they are indeed blue blockers, but I can't see the difference either.
I do not have an odd prescription, but Zenni has not gotten it right for me. I’ve had 4 pairs of glasses from them; 2 had to go back because they were so wrong. They disagreed with me, but I was able to get credit at least. The next 2 were “ok” but still off. I’m not sure I trust them to provide what they say they’re providing. It’s fine for the $7 backup pair. But that’s about it.
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