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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I found a work around. It does require extensive planning and forethought. Always work west of where you live if you have a 9-5 job. If you work evenings, live east of where you work. I used this system for years though life finds a way to mess up plans and ive been driving into the sun for a few years now.
Because you can just wait thirty minutes or put on sunglasses, and the “problem” will go away
This is a hard problem to solve.
And existing “solutions” are either prohibitively expensive, and will not always work as expected 100% of the time.
Just master your squints 😉
it would be nice to dim the other guys headlights on a dark country road too. problem has onlygotten worse with leds.
all you need really is an LCD panel between you and your windshield that tracks your eyes and puts a spot over the oncoming headlights based on how bright the lights are .
it wont block them so much that you cant see them at all just enough so it doesnt wipe out your night vivion completely.
Most places in the world solve the problem by not having any view of the horizon. I am hard pushed to think of a road I’ve used where the sun would be visible setting for more than a short length of time. That would need a perfectly straight, perfectly flat, perfectly East-West road for enough distance to reach the horizon unobscured and there’s only one country I know that builds roads like that.
As someone who drove “into the sun” to work and home for over a decade, it was never that big a problem. Put on sunglasses, don’t stare directly at it, problem solved.
I always thought it would be nice for a second visor on my right side I can swivel.to the right. Sometimes the sun comes at me right around the rear view mirror and there is nothing but my hand to stop it.
The solution is self-driving cars and curtains.
Otherwise solving the problem of blocking the sun without decreasing visibility isn’t going to happen. Especially when you factor in cost and safety as a car manufacturer.
I have a solution that doesn’t involve turning my entire windscreen into an LCD – I leave a baseball cap on my headrest. When the sun is in my eyes I put it on. Then as long as the sun isn’t literally touching the horizon I can usually tilt my head in a way that blocks the sub out but lets me see in front of me.
There are welding covers that are clear when you’re not welding, and immediately become dark when you start welding.
I guess the technology is there, so I guess it’s probably a cost or safety issue…
Many people have already explained ways is would be possible, and given the rains why its not feasible (mostly cost).
Another major issue that impacts all solution is legal retirements. Each market is slightly different, but there are legal requirements regarding the amount transparency of your windscreen. In the UK this figure is 75% of light must pass through the front windscreen. As soon as you put anything to shade of the sun, you probably won’t hit this figure.
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