Remote Deployment of Sun Visor

[markjay]

Safety concerns...?

Not an issue on a bus, but in passenger cars, tall drivers may obstruct the visor? Or the visor may obstruct their view when deployed? Not ideal if deployed by mistake when negotiating a bend...

Also, when you are suddenly hit by bright sunlight, you pull it down asap, but electric deployment is bound to be slow action - again for safety reasons.

 

[MOCAŠ]

And in that vein, for the passion wagon, you'd just need to pull a knob to have all the windows blank out while the seats recline...class.

Think I'd want the windows blanked out before the knob-pulling started...

 

[MOCAŠ]

Safety concerns...?

Not an issue on a bus, but in passenger cars, tall drivers may obstruct the visor? Or the visor may obstruct their view when deployed? Not ideal if deployed by mistake when negotiating a bend...

If they were electrically operated, I suspect they wouldn't be of the hinged variety. It would make more sense for them to slide straight down from their parked position, and then retract the same way, with the driver being able to control how far down they would go.

 

[s88]

surely it is easier these days and technology moves on to press a button that tints the windows.

Dont they have this on a roof ?

 

[whitenemesis]

surely it is easier these days and technology moves on to press a button that tints the windows.

Dont they have this on a roof ?

See post #11

 

[Deleted member 65149]

Keeping one's hands on the wheel when swinging

Oh, so that's what started all those sordid posts that came soon after

OOPS, I must have got too excited!

 

[sinewave]

To be honest I drive around with my Visor down permanently.

 

[whitenemesis]

To be honest I drive around with my Visor down permanently.

You wont feel the benefit..... Oh, hang on that's wearing one's coat indoors

 

[Paul/]

Who'd have thought that a thread about sun visors would have such comic potential.

 

[st4]

Perhaps you would also like the electronic pick your nose option as well to save you the trouble of that. With all this automation soon it will be too much effort to actually drive the flaming car!

Picking your nose is one of lifes great traffic light pleasures. Examining the pickings is even better then rolling them and storing them in between your finger nails ready for eating later is one of my favourite things to do.

 

[Igurisu]

To be honest I drive around with my Visor down permanently.

I'm the opposite, I never use the sunvisor. I put my sunglasses on which are good even in the brightest sun. I don't like the reduction in windscreen space when the sunvisor is down.

 

[o2drive]

Sunvisor just gets in my field of view so I also prefer The sunglasses option :bannana:

 

[MOCAŠ]

I'm the opposite, I never use the sunvisor. I put my sunglasses on which are good even in the brightest sun. I don't like the reduction in windscreen space when the sunvisor is down.

Sunvisor just gets in my field of view so I also prefer The sunglasses option

Surely if your sunglasses were doing the same job as the sun visor, you wouldn't be able to see where you were going?

 

[Igurisu]

Surely if your sunglasses were doing the same job as the sun visor, you wouldn't be able to see where you were going?

They do the same job but in a different way. The sunvisor physically blocks the sun (and everything else behind it). Sunglasses filter out the glare without restricting vision or visibility.

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[Paul/]

I need prescription glasses for driving, reactolite/transition does its bit but I find the visor more flexible as it can be dropped slightly or deployed sideways esp when low sun side-on through tree-lined roads) without compromising visibility of the unobscured portion.

 

[whitenemesis]

I need prescription glasses for driving, reactolite/transition does its bit but I find the visor more flexible as it can be dropped slightly or deployed sideways esp when low sun side-on through tree-lined roads) without compromising visibility of the unobscured portion.

Reactolite (photochromic) lenses don't work within cars. The car's windows filter out the UV the lenses need to work.

 

[Paul/]

Reactolite (photochromic) lenses don't work within cars. The car's windows filter out the UV the lenses need to work.

Well smack me over the head with a giddy kipper- I do believe you're right sir. Only taken me 30 years to realise this. I'd have been better off with those old-fangled hinged clipons.

 

[TDE1]

I wouldn't like a reactolite-style windscreen. Sounds nice in principle, but wouldn't change quickly enough for sudden light variations (tunnels from sunlight come to mind).

I was once adamant (as an adolescent, before I had accrued any common sense) that prescription car windows would save drivers from having to wear spectacles. And that was of my lesser-embarrassing ideas...

 

[whitenemesis]

Well smack me over the head with a giddy kipper- I do believe you're right sir. Only taken me 30 years to realise this. I'd have been better off with those old-fangled hinged clipons.

LOL..

My dad used to have those clip-ons for driving, brown for daytime and bright yellow for night time

 

[MOCAŠ]

They do the same job but in a different way. The sunvisor physically blocks the sun (and everything else behind it). Sunglasses filter out the glare without restricting vision or visibility.

I normally drive wearing sunglasses, but I still need to use the visor when the sun is low, bright and straight ahead. Maybe I need different sunglasses.