Using laser goggles for night driving

[greenm]

would there be any benefit? Or any technical reason that they would make night driving good?

 

[Murudai]

Are you thinking of night vision goggles?

The purpose of laser goggles is to reduce the intensity of a certain or range of wavelengths. And reducing light can only made it harder to see when night driving, or any driving for that matter.

 

[Switch]

would there be any benefit? Or any technical reason that they would make night driving good?

They wouldn't be any benefit.It would make it worse.Even if you were talking about nightvision goggles, those narrow your field of view(I guess, haven't really used any) and it's better to just use your headlights, it's easier to be seen by other traffic participants and not cause an accident.

 

[Petrovski]

I'm guessing he's not talking about actual night vision goggles, but of the yellow type glasses that are advertised to protect you from getting blinded by the headlights of other cars and improve contrast.

Since laser protection goggles are made to filter specific wavelength ranges I doubt you would have any benefit from wearing those while driving. Headlights generally emit white light, which means they emit the same amount of light of each visible wavelength. Let's say you use protection goggles for green lasers, which will filter light around the 532nm wavelength. This means only those wavelengths will be filtered from white light, the rest of the wavelengths will pass through.

Results: slight power decrease (I'm guessing less then 10%) and the light will no longer look white since green got filtered out.