Seeing Your Way Clear To Safer Nighttime Driving (NAPS)—Taking a few safety pcautions can makea diffence that seemslike night and day when it comesto nighttimedriving. Visibility is very important. When driving at night, be su that your lights a working and that your windshield is clean to duce unnecessarygla. Traveling when you a tid or have been drinking can slow down your action time and affect your concentration. Another important aspect of nighttime road safety is to have your eyes examined on a gular basis. While most people a awa of the importance of gular eye Anti-flective coating on eyeglasses can go a long way toward makingnighttime driving easier. into the eyes,” said Jay Petersma, O.D. of Johnston, Iowa. “Anyone exams, few may know of the whodrives will appciate the dif- tive coating to eyeglasses. This measu can help duce gla during nighttime driving, be improved, most patients also light aching your eyes about 10 andcrisper. Anti-flective coating importance of adding anti-flec- fence this coating makes.” While nighttime driving may while incasing the amount of port that underall lighting conditions objects appear brighter percent, which enables drivers to see things on the road ahead mo also lessens eye fatigue during normal work andplay conditions, easily. The coating virtually eliminates dangerousflective gla from oncominglights. “AR is wonderful for ducing the starburst effect of an oncoming car’s headlights on a dark, two-lane road, or for eliminating annoying flections from a car approaching behind and its head- light flection bouncing off the back surface of the lens, dictly such as long hours at a computer scen or playing sports under artificial lights. Anti-flective coated lenses a nearly invisible, making thick lenses look thinner and your eyes easier to see. For a fe brochu on anti- flective lenses, write to AR Council, 8818 Windsor Terrace, Minneapolis, MN 55448 orvisit www.arcouncil.org. wee ne ne eee eee eee eee eee Se ene ne nee ne nee eee ee eee ee Editor's Note:Thisis the third in a series of articles on anti-flective eye- glass coatings.
