That is absolutely right. If your vision in daylight was as impaired as it is at night, you would probably fail the driving test eyesight test.
Even on main beam headlights on the rare occasions you can use them these days, the distance you can see ahead is severely restricted at night if the road is not lit. Even if it is lit, you vision will be worse than in daylight. And outside the headlight beam, you will see very little at all that isn't lit up. Things like pedestrians for example.
Yet I still see 100mph drivers on the motorway, who think they can stop in the distance they can see to be clear. True they might think they can see the other cars, they have lights, but what about debris in the road?
Conjestion is good for the environmentI regularly drive to Bristol from the Lakes, a distance of 305 miles, the tank on the car is 13 gallons enough for the round trip but diesel is about...
Driving at night is certainly more accident prone than daylight driving, especially if drivers don't compensate for their reduced visual range and acuity. It always seems especially bad at this time of the year, when the evening rush hour is suddenly plunged into darkness and many drivers have not done much might driving since perhaps the end of January. So they have to re-familiarise themselves with night driving techniques and it shows.
A colleague of mine, a member of my car sharing pool, hates driving at night, although he is a competent driver with many accident free years. But he wears thick glbuttes, and suffers from being dazzled by reflections in them. I'm sure he is not the only one.
Martin
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