"Anti Glare Lights"

Interesting premise, I wonder how well it works. Seems to me they'd have to be red, but I don't know. May have to try something out...

Googled it and the idea is that they create enough ambient light that your pupils contract, reducing your sensitivity to the oncoming schmuck's highbeams, or improperly aimed super bright headlights.

 

interesting.. I'd like to check it out.

 

Jpenn said it right.

Kinda like in sound, the colored windshield light would be like a white noise generator. It doesn't reduce anything, just fills in the sensory range so it's not so dynamic.

It reduces your visual acuity when there are no brights coming at you. I even dim my dash lights low at night so I can see better, ain't no way I would stick lights in my windshield. Just a reason for smokey to pull you over.

 

Know this is old, but here goes anyway. Back in the early 80's, when I started driving OTR. Got in a truck that did not have a sleeper curtain in it. It was an old Freightliner/White cab over. I stopped at a truck stop in I-40 exit 128 in Tn. Thinking I will find a flag to hang over the small hole. They only had one flag that would fit. So I used that flag for 10 months.
I left the sleeper lights on thus lighting that old flag up at night. Now I did not do it to make others mad. I was just a dumb country boy. So I had a Confederate flag lit up at night. All over the east Coast. Never had anyone say a word about it. Even while unloading at sections of town. That today may have gotten me killed .
Now the red color in that flag, glowing made night driving so much better. Move on to where I got into a Large car. It had a sleeper curtain, so did not need my flag over the sleeper. Took me about 3 nights to figure out that something was not right. Having issues seeing at night! Also tired and having to pull over, get out of the truck, walk around to get where I could go again. Then you got it tried that flag again. and was an eye opener for sure.
I had seen people with bullet marker light facing the windshield. Asked a buddy of mine what he had those stupid lights like that for? He laughed and told me to make night driving strain on his eye's less. I got the chance to look at how he had those lights setup. One bullet light near outside window post. Those 2 lights were hooked up to a rheostat or dimmer switch.

I tried these lights without the rheostat and that did not work. They put out brighter light then I needed. But dim those lights down to just a small glow. And it made a world of difference. I used the Amber color.
One other thing that even today makes night driving for me better. I dim all dash lights down to where I can see the gauges, but that's it. If you run around with those dash lights, GPS lights wide open. Where it makes the cab lite up. Back off and just let them glow. Makes your eyes work better.
Will be adding window lights to my T600 soon. And will try to do a video of how I do it, along with a video of those lights on at night.

 

50 percent window tint (on the windshield) does wonders too.