| Anyone out there that feels the same as me where the BMF give their opinion and write it all out for people to sign (easy option init) so we don't have to have our own opinion?
They've missed some fundamental points on this dark visor malarkie.
1. They haven't even considered graded tinted visors, dark at the top clear at the bottom. Got a brightness problem then dip your head a little to get the correct grade of tint in line with the area that is too bright. Works great for night time car headlights too.
2. Polarised and photochromatic lens. Photochromatic: Nice and bright, the visor is dark and the road goes into a shaded area (woods, tunnel) instantly blind. You come out the other side and the visor has cleared, straight into bright light, blinded again. Good idea that, and they take minutes to change.
Polarised visors. Anybody had a look at diesel on the road through polarised lenses? Have a look. Second point, polarised lenses work by bypass filtering light at 90 degrees to horizontal, so effectively they are a 50% tint. When you go round a corner what do you do with your head? Often you tilt it, this changes the light characteristics which means things can appear and disappear as you look at them. Try getting a polarising filter and look into a puddle of water and you'll see what I mean. Water on a road surface can disappear under the right (wrong) circumstances.
I'd go for the graded tint myself.
Incidentally, anybody seen those cars with black tinted side windows getting nicked lately? Nope me neither. Wouldn't like to work out the odds of being seen through one of those on a murky evening when there's a film of crud on it.
Only my opinion like.
Ains.  |