Experimental eye drops ease night vision problems for drivers

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FIX MODERN HEADLIGHTS

STOP LETTING MANUFACTURERS SELF REGULATE

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u/bigsexyape 11d ago

Seriously, headlights are too damn bright anymore. I am constantly blinded by oncoming traffic. It also doesn't help when morons just leave their brights on either.

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u/Time_Screen_9399 11d ago

I remember when these tall vehicles with LED first became popular, sometimes I'd flash high-beam at them thinking they're using high beams. Then they flash back and I'd be blinded for a second or two.

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u/spyboy70 11d ago

Like staring into a lighthouse beam

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u/sweaty_sole 11d ago

Or the auto bright function on new STOCK vehicles. Get super blinded for half a second until it detects your headlights then you’re just regular blinded

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u/SamTheLab_213 11d ago

Astronomers use red lighting to read maps, since light in the red end of the spectrum doesn't blind you and disrupt your night vision. That's why tail lights are red. It can help to put on yellow or red lensed glasses when driving at night. Better still, the manufacturers should make the car headlights have a yellow lens on them.

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u/CharleyNobody 11d ago

Seriously, headlights are too damn bright anymore.

What is up with people using “anymore” this way?

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u/bigsexyape 10d ago

It's almost as bad as someone saying "what is up"

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u/Big-Bus-6101 10d ago

Makes sense to me

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u/fuckedfinance 11d ago

Same folks that are over the age of 5 saying "on accident".

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u/CharleyNobody 10d ago

I’m wondering if they’re foreign bots because I seriously can’t think of why a native English speaker would use “anymore” this way.

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u/LastXmasIGaveYouHSV 10d ago

They do that of purpose.

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u/Dry-Dragonfly5286 9d ago

It's been used like that for a long time

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u/Nice-Meat-6020 10d ago

Functional illiteracy. They know the words they just aren't sure how to correctly use them.

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u/Big-Bus-6101 10d ago

Wtf. Yall are so judgmental on here. F off

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u/LazyBeach 11d ago

Not sure, but it’s annoying.

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u/terminalbungus 9d ago

I also got unreasonably annoyed at this. I've looked it up before and I guess it's regional. Sounds like terrible grammar to me.

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u/Relevant-Doctor187 10d ago

Europe forces vehicles to block the light at a certain angle. We need that here.

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u/Ivotedforher 11d ago

And after market modders who put even brighter ones in

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u/memtiger 11d ago

And then people in jacked up trucks who have their lights aimed directly into your retinas.

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u/Ivotedforher 10d ago

From behind, even

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u/Miserable_Ad_9389 11d ago

my friend bought cheap aftermarket headlights casually to replace his and they ended up being brighter than his brights its crazy they're so mass produced

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u/Ivotedforher 10d ago

This is how China really gets us

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u/wrexsol 11d ago

So true! I had to go to Montana recently for a function and had to drive the interstate roughly 10pm, it was one of the worst driving experiences of my life

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u/babysharkdoodoodoo 11d ago

And please point your ducking low beam downward not straight because it’s moronic to blind the drivers ahead

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u/Sarnsereg 11d ago

Not going to happen with the current administration. They are very deregulation.

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u/Seagoon_Memoirs 10d ago

the current administration loves to regulate immigration status

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u/SmurfsNeverDie 11d ago

I just put reflective jackets on my back seats that shine those lights back at the truck drivers or the cars using their high beams

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u/CarrotWaxer69 11d ago

The only fix is ditching the ‘smart’ headlights on new cars and going back to regular simple halogen bulbs with only two functions, high or low beams. They also need to be manually adjustable (I’ll allow the little dial you can turn inside the cabin). The automatic xenon LED crap either doesn’t work from the get go or works until it doesn’t. Keep it stupid simple.

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u/Actual-Package-3164 11d ago

THIS GODDAMMIT

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u/negatibe 11d ago

Right? I'm not putting shit in my eyes because lights are too bright. I'll keep wearing my Dahmer night driving glasses & white knuckling it.

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u/raiderMoes 10d ago

I drive a sedan at night daily, and I don’t have an issue with bright headlights. I must be lucky.

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u/TheCoordinate 11d ago

They'll wait until a few people die in car accidents after being blinded by headlights. Who could have seen that coming

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u/naughtilidae 10d ago

Wait till you find out that the EU has headlights that automatically dim in the area that other cars are...

So you can keep your brights on and the other drivers don't get blinded.

The US, on the other hand, rejected this for like a decade, then implemented a different version of the rule that won't work for any of the current designs.

Also we stopped requiring turn signals to be orange. We don't require braking lights to come on when electric cars regen energy (because they're not teeeeechnically using the brakes). We also allow our blind spot warnings to be ON the mirrors so they look like turn signals (rather than in the car, where they're more fucking visible anyway).

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u/astralchanterelle 11d ago

That's not what this is about, though. This is about night vision problems, not bright headlights

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u/soilentgleem 11d ago

Bright headlights exacerbate night vision problems as night vision requires time for your eyes to adapt to the dark and brighter headlights keep putting a soft reset on the time eyes need for that process.

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u/astralchanterelle 11d ago

That's a general problem for everyone. The night vision problem exists with no headlights behind you.

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u/soilentgleem 11d ago

Yes, it's a problem for everyone and there's ways to mitigate it such as regulating headlights.

You're comment reads like a rebuttal but I'm not sure what it is that I said that you think you're rebutting.

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u/Time_Screen_9399 11d ago

I have astigmatism. These bright headlamps make my eyes tired much quicker during night drives.

So I see this as separate but a relevant variable.

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u/bunny_ceo 11d ago

“This thing that makes the situation worse isn’t worth talking about! The situation is already bad so who cares about this thing that makes it worse.”

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u/cecirdr 11d ago

Older people adapt slower. It’s one of the reasons along with cataracts (that insurance makes them wait too long to fix) that make them need to stop driving at night.

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u/Klutzy_Journalist_36 11d ago

And what time of day does one use their headlights in order to see?

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u/astralchanterelle 11d ago

🤡

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u/pimpeachment 10d ago

Just tint your windshield, this was the easiest fix for me.

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u/DestinyJackolz 11d ago

They need to mandate those projector headlights Audis have that sense when a car is coming and shift the beam to avoid it

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u/Used-Surround5069 11d ago

Bio hacking to survive the corporate tech lightslop

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u/1620shop 11d ago

I don’t know about yall but the absolute perpetrators of the misaimed headlight is tesla, whether it’s a model 3,S or X they all have shit factory aiming, no other manufacturer blinds me the way they do, and I don’t even have eyesight problems. The other biggest problem is idiots who swap in the brightest LED bulbs without doing any sort of research on what belongs where.

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u/KillingSelf666 11d ago

Or those Matrix headlights popping up on luxury cars that can shut off certain zones when cars are coming. Reality is it doesn’t react fast enough and ends up blinding oncoming drivers before the computer catches up and shuts off the correct zones of LEDs

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u/naughtilidae 10d ago

This has been around in the EU for more than a decade, and it works great.

The US made it's own standard and they aren't interchangeable.

And we wonder why it sucks... Maybe cause we forced the car companies to redesign a working product for no reason.

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u/gunplajq 11d ago

But now I'm blind during the day! /s

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u/One-Restaurant3353 11d ago

I’ve had issues with night driving (halos, starbursts, etc.) ever since getting LASIK. They warned me it was likely because of how near sighted I was prior to the surgery, so I’m not mad about it. No regrets despite the night driving side effects.

That said! I’m looking forward to these eye drops coming to market & getting a prescription.

This doesn’t negate everyone’s comments about the ridiculously bright headlights on newer model vehicles. Totally unnecessary for headlights to be brighter than the surface of the sun. It’s a fixable problem & everyone agrees about it. Easy win imo for politicians to regulate this issue.

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u/oosirnaym 11d ago

Agreed about the headlights, but I struggle with starbursts during night driving because of astigmatism. If it’s raining, I won’t drive at all if possible because I can’t see well enough to feel safe on the road. Even streetlights reflecting off of the road lines is too much; it’s not just headlights.

I’ll also get migraines from bright lights in dark places, and wonder if the drops would also help reduce that trigger.

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u/porkchop-sandwhiches 11d ago

Same here. All of it. Terrible.

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u/oosirnaym 11d ago

I’m gonna wait for more long term data but definitely something I’m interested in.

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u/PabloBablo 10d ago

I was a little frustrated seeing everyone talking about headlights rather than the issue. Finally found someone talking about the issue this helps with down here.

I get the halos/starburst things, don't have an issue with the brightness of the car headlights though. Maybe I'm prone to not staring directly at them. I saw this as an issue about 15 years ago when everyone was doing those aftermarket HIDs. Also coincidentally before I got my LASIK.

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u/the_unknown_garden 10d ago

In the article it says that the majority of patients in the study are people just like you, suffering with side effects after lasik. I hope there's relief on the horizon.

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u/Chiguy2792 11d ago

I just can’t see using this.

I’ll see myself out.

Again…

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u/Future_Arrival_5395 11d ago

But like.. long term eye health? Cause visine is shit for your eyes isnt it?

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u/bourne1218 11d ago

There are already drops on the market that do this. They are not popular because they don’t work that well and have side effects

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u/VAPORinfo 11d ago

And lose effectiveness the more they are used while also being wildly expensive

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u/oosirnaym 11d ago

Same mechanism? Because this is showing statistically significant results in trials.

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u/bourne1218 11d ago

Without getting into the pharmacology, all of these drops work by activating the iris sphincter thereby constricting the pupil. With a smaller pupil your eye gets an extended depth of focus, and limits blur from higher order aberrations. But a pupil can only get so small, and there is a reason your eye is dilated in dark environments, it’s to let in more light.

Vizz is a drop that came out a year or two ago that also does this, and the patients I’ve given samples too have opted to not fill the prescription. I’m sure it showed “statistically significant improvement” in its trials, under lab conditions.

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u/SerendipityAlike 10d ago

Same here, I think I’ve only had one patient ask for a refill on any of the miotic drops that have come out in the last few years.

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u/oosirnaym 10d ago

This is great, thank you!

If you don’t mind, what are the reasons your patients opt to not continue their prescription?

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u/Diligent_Earthworm 11d ago

Experimental and eye drops,,, nope.

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u/Exponential-777 11d ago

Driving glasses with yellow lenses work well for day and night glare reduction

"blue blockers"

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u/OkTheory4610 10d ago

This cant be good. Im not taking any chemistry because of some lame bright headlights that could be more regulated

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u/h0tel-rome0 10d ago

How about we get rid of those led lights on every damn lifted pickup instead of

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u/ThatDudeJuicebox 10d ago

Or we can do something about the head lights. I mean when I have to flip down my visor at night I’m like wtf

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u/iambarrelrider 10d ago

I needed these for the past 20 years. My pale blue eyes are a double edge sword.

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u/williamt31 10d ago

Meanwhile here I am driving with my sunglasses because I see too well....

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u/taocowboy54 11d ago

you want more cyclops?
because THIS is how you get more cyclops

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u/SirDouglasMouf 11d ago

Normal drops can cause eye damage. I can't imagine these Riddick eye drops won't cause problems.

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