Speaking with the CBC<\/a>, Dr. Christina Schropp, an optometrist with West 5 Optometry in London, Ont., said the lights do not affect eye health because drivers are protected by their windshields, but they still pose safety concerns.<\/p>\n\u201cWe call it \u2018the startle.\u2019 A bright light can startle the visual system and cause it to sort of lose its ability to focus because of that very bright light suddenly coming into the eye,\u201d she told the outlet.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen you get to the question of what\u2019s the reaction to that visual startle? Would they pull their steering wheel, put on their brakes, and then have that erratic driving pattern, or could they have a radical pattern if they\u2019re able to re-fixate?\u201d<\/p>\n
Contributing to light pollution<\/p>\n
Research suggests<\/a> that the widespread use of LEDs at night creates more light pollution because the high-intensity, cool-toned light scatters further in the atmosphere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While the lights may make it easier for some to see, all oncoming traffic and pedestrians could be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":732041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-732040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=732040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/732041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}