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Rodenstock
Big Exact Road
Rodenstock describes its Big Exact Road product as a premium collaboration of lens design and coating technology. According to the company, Big Exact Road lenses utilise the wealth of data obtained via the DNEye Scanner to manufacture a lens that is not only optimised up to the cornea, but all the way to the retina; optimised for each eye’s unique shape and size.
This allows for more of the image being formed precisely where needed and giving patients greater clarity, comfort and adaptation. The eye’s high order aberrations (HOAs) can affect patients in a variety of situations. However, drivers often describe ‘starbursts’ or ‘ghosting’ effects, especially at night when the pupil is wider allowing these HOAs to have greater impact.
Big Exact Road lenses can help minimise these aberrations and may return a driver’s ability to drive in poor light. Rodenstock combines the lens with its new LayR Road X-tra Clean anti-reflection, complete with 12% contrast boost tint. This allows patients to benefit from a dedicated driving solution that offers clarity, comfort, easy-clean, stay-clean technology.
Optimum RX Group
Optiform Drive InMotion
Optimum notes driving is a complex task that demands the best vision possible and Optiform Drive inMotion, with its specially developed OptiGo inMotion coating, ensures patients will have clearer, more comfortable vision, day and night when driving.
The lens is said to be a unique design that has been created to provide the widest possible distance for edge-to-edge clarity, a significantly wider upper intermediate zone to enable a clear view of the dashboard, and a full reading prescription.
Optimum has taken into consideration viewing behaviour when driving to ensure wearers get the best performance at the distances they fixate on most in low light, and have even created a night myopia zone for patients who experience a myopic shift at night. The lens is also available in single vision.
Clinical trials show that the optiGo inMotion coating allows drivers to recover from the dazzling effect of headlights almost 25% faster.
Younger Optics
DriveWear
Younger Transitions DriveWear is said to be an intelligent, adaptive, prescription polarised, photochromic sunglass lens for drivers.
DriveWear combines a highly efficient, high contrast polarizing film with a dual-purpose photochromic dye package, which reacts to both UV and visible light. DriveWear will fade and darken behind the windscreen.
Transmission is between 35% in the lens’ rested state, darkening to 25% in the car and onto 12% LTF in direct sunlight.
DriveWear is available in single vision 1.5, Trilogy (made with Trivex), Polycarbonate and 1.67, all with an 8 base, via privately owned Rx Labs.
Digital designs are available in single vision and progressives. Trilogy is suitable for all ophthalmic frames, including three piece, supra, in line metals and wrap designs.
Essilor
Crizal Drive
Crizal Drive from Essilor is a premium anti-reflective coating that is said to offer impeccable clarity of vision by adapting to the light waves that the eye is sensitive to, during the day and at night.
Its performance leads to up to 90% less reflections at night, at 507nm where eye sensitivity is the highest, compared to a lens with a hard coat. The coating protects lenses from all the barriers to clear vision including scratches, smudges, water, dust and UV rays.
Alan Pitcher, commercial director for wholesale lenses at EssilorLuxottica, said: ‘We’ve made the coating available on a wider range of our lenses to help even more patients benefit from improved visual acuity and safer night vision.’
DSW Optical
Drive lenses
DSW Optical notes that spectacle wearers can find some visual tasks require a more bespoke solution and, for many, regular glasses do not offer the comfort and range of vision they desire for driving, especially driving at night.
The lab’s Drive SV and Varifocals are said to reduce peripheral distortion and by compensating for the effects of night myopia, provide more comfortable, focused vision.
DSW Optical Drive lenses combine those features in a personalised lens design and, by adding a driving contrast filter, the wearer can further improve the comfort and visual experience when driving in all conditions.
Tokai
Actiview Drive
Tokai’s Actiview Drive lens is said to offer glare reduction while increasing contrast to provide comfortable vision on the road.
Tokai says ActiviewDrive ensures superior clarity, maintains the right brightness and eliminates all reflections.
The product is available across all clear lenses for 1.50, 1.60 and 1.70 index, and all Lutina lenses for 1.60 and 1.67 index.
Caledonian Optical
Drivewear Transitions
Caledonian Optical offer patients the opportunity to experience enhanced driving clarity with Drivewear Transitions lenses, tailored for dynamic road conditions.
Engineered with NuPolar Polarisation and Transitions photochromic technology, the lens is said to offer unparalleled advantages, ideal for daytime sunglasses solutions.
Caledonian says NuPolar Polarisation eliminates glare from the road and car hood, ensuring clear vision during daylight hours, while Transitions adjusts tint for varying light conditions.
The lenses dynamically transition through different tints, providing specific benefits for each driving scenario under the sun. In low light, a green/yellow tint provides clarity during dusk or dawn drives.
However, these lenses are unsuitable for night driving. For bright conditions, a copper tint aids in traffic signal recognition, and in excess light, a dark red-brown tint reduces eye strain.
With Drivewear Transitions, drivers are said to experience enhanced clarity, reduced glare and optimal vision adaptability, ensuring safer and more comfortable journeys on the road, especially during the daytime.
Eye Index
HD Drive
According to specialist RX lab, Eye Index, car owners increasingly want the right lenses for driving.
Enquiries to the lab about driving lenses have increased significantly since the Covid-19 pandemic, driven partly by a deterioration in the nation’s eyesight since lockdown.
The company’s HD Drive lens, for single vision and varifocal patients, is said to optimise distance and intermediate zones and will help to compensate for the refractive change that occurs between day and night. HD Drive is offered with a choice of coatings.
Digital Ray Path technology and the Eye Index Blue Protect System are also able to combat the worst effects of nighttime glare.
Patient benefits associated with these technologies include wider distance and intermediate visual fields, enhanced vision of car dashboards and external mirrors, and reduced fatigue when driving at night or in poor conditions.
Seiko
Seiko Drive with SRC Road
Seiko Drive lenses, available in both single vision and progressive lens designs, are said to be optimised to provide high quality vision across the lens to support the lateral vision required when driving.
The progressive lens is designed to maximise the intermediate range for viewing the dashboard and controls.
The lenses are provided with a specific coating for driving: SRC Road. SRC is said to maximise the light in the visible spectrum used at night while also reducing glare and distracting reflections.
This new coating provides full UV protection, from transmitted and reflected UV. Seiko says its Drive lenses are fine tuned to the needs of motorists, to provide wearers with a clearer road view and comfortable driving experience.
