ZEISS Makes Car Driving Safer

Most spectacle wearers are also car drivers and experience discomfort or vision impairment when it gets dark, rainy or misty. The disproportionately large number of traffic accidents after nightfall shows their concerns are justified. ZEISS DriveSafe lenses are designed to maximise safety and comfort for car-driving spectacle wearers and can nevertheless be used all day. A new premium coating and a state-of-the art lens design technology make this possible. The new lenses address the major challenges facing spectacle wearers while driving in difficult light and weather conditions, resulting from dim light, fog or rain.

Press release

The new all-day ZEISS DriveSafe eyeglass lenses provide wearers with more safety through better vision in challenging driving conditions

Aalen, 01/10/2015
Most spectacle wearers are also car drivers and experience discomfort or vision impairment when it gets dark, rainy or misty. The disproportionately large number of traffic accidents after nightfall shows their concerns are justified. 83% of spectacle wearers use cars and the vast majority (72%) of them are interested in having a single pair of spectacles to provide an everyday solution that can also cope with the special challenges of driving. Car-driving spectacle wearers feel discomfort, especially in rain (94%), at dusk (88%), at night (76%) and in fog (74%)^[1].
ZEISS DriveSafe lenses are designed to maximise safety and comfort for car-driving spectacle wearers and can nevertheless be used all day. A new premium coating and a state-of-the art lens design technology make this possible. The new lenses address the major challenges facing spectacle wearers while driving in difficult light and weather conditions, resulting from dim light, fog or rain.