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September 26, 2009

Can polarized sunglasses help when driving a car?

Filed under: Polarized Sunglasses — henry glasses @ 10:48 am

Yes. Those pesky bright reflections of the sun on the cars ahead can sometimes be attenuated a good deal. They tend to be horizontally polarized, thus perfect for vertically polarized sunglasses. The reason is that the surfaces that you see on the car in front of you (the back window, the trunk door, and even the roof) will be slanted towards you, while the sun will be more or less aligned in the vertical plane through both cars (if not you wouldn’t see its reflection from those surfaces). (more glasses…)

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