Re: [ST] Night riding

["Just Daetrin" <daytrip90@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Marc - it might be helpful to indentify the specific things that contribute 
to these symptoms.

For instance:
P: Driving faster than your headlights.
A: This happens to me too and makes me not look ahead as much as I should.  
At times I put on my high beams but realize this is not always idea.  Others 
have put in brigther headlights and/or raised the aiming point of their 
lights.

P: Unclear visor due to scratches, rain, film, fogging, etc. makes it hard 
to pick out visual cues or focus ahead.
A: This happens to me a lot at night, esp the fogging/rain mist bit, which 
decreases what I can see by at times quite a bit.  Some people have reported 
that using RainX and/or anti-fogging compounds help quite a bit.  Cleaning 
the visor correctly on a regular basis also cuts down on this problem, or at 
last resort getting a new visor.  Not sure what else to recommend, as mist 
forming on my visor has been a big problem where there's not water/speed 
moving to get it off, and the traffic is such that I can't readily take my 
hands off the grips to wipe my visor when it gets bad.  Of course, this 
really only happens when it's raining (often up here), but may not be 
applicable to you.

P: Eyes not adapting to darkness quickly.
A: I've had this happen more often as I get older and work with computers 
more - I have a harder time getting my eyes to night-adapt and to focus 
ahead.  For me being tired at the end of a long day makes this work.  
Perhaps giving your eyes time to adjust before starting out may help.  I 
also notice the more I move my eyes about and actively scan the better might 
night vision adapts - e.g. if I just focus on what's ahead of me I have a 
harder time adapting.

Unfortunately losing night vision does happen as we get older and the lenses 
get more rigid (IIRtC). If you correct the above and still have this problem 
it might be time to have your eyes checked, and I don't mean that as a slam 
but as a concern.

For me, I'm also driving slower at night especially on roads I'm not 
familiar with, but I realize that for me at least while I can't do much 
about the loss of night vision, I can at least get bulbs that will increase 
how much of the road ahead of me I can see.

My $.02 anyway, other may have more clarity on the issue.

Paul
'01 BRG ST




>On Tue, 04 Feb 2003 21:30:15 -0800, Marc Danziger wrote:
>
> >So I'm trying to figure out what it is, and the best I can do is suggest 
>two
>things:
> >
> >1) I lose my sense of the road; I feel like I'm lost on the road (kind of 
>like
>Turn 8 at Willow) and am just uncertain what to do next (this screws up my
>timing, and so on down the line...);
>
>I don't know what to say about this, may be practice will help.
>
> >2) I stop trusting thr road (since I can't see the road surface and react
>accordingly).


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