You want your car to be as safe as possible, you don’t want every road trip to be a life threatening experience. Think about what you carry in your car, your family! Your family is in your car, so of course you want your car to be safe. But accidents do happen for a number of reasons, some of which are unavoidable.

            You can improve the safety of your car by improving your own driving style, or by adding additional features to your car. If you are tired, then you should definitely take a break, do not drive when you are tired.

            One of the biggest problems with driving is the glare. Glare can come from either the sun in the day or other people’s headlights at night. Glare can either give you a headache or even stop you seeing clearly so it’s quite an important problem to solve.

            If you drive in the early morning, or evening then I’m sure you’ll be familiar with glare from the sun. In the early morning, and evening the sun is very low in the sky and so it makes driving very dangerous. Sun visors do partly help to rectify this problem, you just flip them down to obscure the sun, but sometimes the sunlight bounces of other cars and water making it very difficult to see.
           So how can you go about solving this pesky problem? Well you could consider a window tint, you can even do it yourself with window tinting film. You can apply a thin strip of window tint to the windscreen at the top to help with the suns glare. A better solution is to wear sunglasses while driving, but make sure you buy good quality light polarizing lenses, make sure that they’re kept clean. A dirty pair of glasses can be much worse than a dirty windscreen because you can’t see past it.

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            People who wear glasses often complain of more problems with glare, If you have prescription glasses get an anti-glare coating applied to them, this is a very thin coating sprayed onto your glasses which will stop glare. If you are considering using sunglasses make sure you get them made up to your prescription, there is no point reducing glare if you’re as blind as a bat!

            If your windscreen is dirty then it can cause light to be scattered, especially if it is very greasy from all the insects that have decided to splat up against it, make sure you keep your washer bottle topped up. Use some antifreeze in the washer bottle, and remember to wash your windscreen whenever it gets dirty. Dirty or damaged wiper blades can also contribute to making the windscreen dirty, either clean or replace these as soon as possible.

How to clean headlights

            When you are night driving if you have trouble with other people’s headlights make sure that you are not focusing on them, just try to ignore them. If somebody leaves their full beam lights on then don’t hesitate to give them a flash, or a blast of your horn.

            The most important thing for safe driving is good eyesight, if you are at all in doubt then make sure that you get your eyes checked as soon as possible. If you’re an older driver then eye tests may be required more frequently.

            Remember to take your sunglasses wherever you go, you’ll never know when you might need them to fight against glare even on a winters day! Keep your mirrors clean, and make sure that all of your lights work for that safe nighttime ride. Just because the rest of your family has fallen asleep in your car doesn’t mean that you should, make sure you stay alert and awake!