Sunglasses, the built-in visors, and the blue-green colored glass at the top of the windshield don’t cut it when the sun is rising/setting and in the middle of your line of sight. Why haven’t manufacturers tried to solve this safety issue with a wider-reaching solution yet? Or if they have, why weren’t the proposed solutions successful?
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Because all of the technical solutions come with the issues of “what about when it goes wrong?”.
We could install reactive polarising systems that could darken your screen as the light hits it, but then it does the same reaction at night whenever there are headlights coming towards you, and do you really want your screen to darken when you are driving at night?
So now you try and develop an electronic solution to try and differentiate between oncoming headlights and sun rays to manage that, and the day it fails you are suddenly in a blacked out car with no visibility, at night, at 70mph. And the last thought you have is “Why didn’t I just wear sunglasses?”
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