Routine vehicle maintenance protects drivers on the road. Maintenance guidelines have changed, but drivers must continue to care for their vehicles to ensure the safety of themselves, their passengers and fellow motorists.
Accept your own vulnerability. The human eye is not adapted for nocturnal vision. As a result, drivers’ visual acuity may be reduced by as much as 70 percent when driving at night.
Recognize headlamp clouding. Clouded headlamps often appear hazed and yellow and reduce headlight output considerably. Routine headlamp inspection can help drivers discover clouded lamps that can greatly compromise nighttime visibility.
Restore clouded headlamps. Restoring kits can help drivers restore their clouded headlamp lenses.
Replace headlamps that are past their prime. While not all clouded headlamps need to be replaced, some aging or outdated bulbs are best replaced with new models designed to produce substantially more light output.
Drivers’ visibility is dramatically reduced once the sun goes down, but maintaining headlamps can help drivers combat that loss of vision.
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