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Low Sun Driving

Winter conditions and low sun can impact even the most confident drivers. With increased glare reflecting off wet roads and surfaces, winter is arguably the most important time to invest in your eyewear. This article will take a look at the best lenses and frame shapes to improve your vision and gain the greatest advantage behind the wheel.

Essilor Crizal Drive

Winter conditions and low sun can impact even the most confident drivers. With increased glare reflecting off wet roads and surfaces, winter is arguably the most important time to invest in your eyewear. This article will take a look at the best lenses and frame shapes to improve your vision and gain the greatest advantage behind the wheel.


Just select ‘Drive Safe’ when choosing your lens coating while entering your prescription when you are buying Essilor lenses.

Zeiss DriveSafe

Zeiss DriveSafe lens coating is designed to help deal with difficult light conditions, both night and daytime. Glare from passing cars and streetlights can cause a distraction to glasses wearers if your lenses are not equipped to cope with them. Zeiss DriveSafe lens coating reflects these wavelengths, providing greater clarity.


Just select ‘Drive Safe’ when choosing your lens coating while entering your prescription when you are buying Zeiss lenses.

Polarised Lenses

You’ve probably heard of polarised lenses before but may not know exactly what they do. Polarised lenses are chemically treated to block excess horizontal light from transmitting through the lens, meaning they minimise glare and make your vision crystal clear.


The reduced glare is what makes polarised lenses such a popular choice for driving, as this means that reflections from wet surfaces, mirrors and many more will not interfere with your vision, leaving you to focus on the road.

Oakley Prizm Lenses

Enhancing colour and contrast, PRIZM allows you to see more clearly and react quicker to changing environments, giving you as much time as possible to react to sudden obstacles on the road. All Oakley frames are fitted with PRIZM lenses, so if you want a pair that are good to go for any occasion, Oakley are a guaranteed success. 


All PRIZM lenses are crafted from Plutonite, a high-grade polycarbonate resistant to high levels of impact, and using a series of dyes and coatings PRIZM lenses filter out specific light wavelengths to enhance the wearers vision.

What is the optimal shape?

Lens shape also plays a significant role when looking for the perfect driving sunglasses. Frames with a wider coverage such as a wrap shape or a classic aviator “pilot” shape are firm favourites of ours.


Originally designed for the US Air Force, the teardrop silhouette of the aviator is designed to gain an increased field of view and providing coverage of your peripheral vision. Combine the aviator shape with polarised lenses such as the RB3025, and you will transform your winter driving and look good while doing so.

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