What The Study Did: With the use of a driving simulator, three commercially available yellow-lens night-driving glasses were compared with clear lenses to examine their ability to detect pedestrians or reduce the negative effects of headlight glare. The study included 22 participants.
‘Study suggests that wearing yellow-lens glasses when driving at night does not improve performance in the most critical task: detection of pedestrian.’
Authors: Alex D. Hwang, Ph.D., of Harvard Medical School in Boston, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamaophthalmol.2019.2893)
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