Astigmatism can make your vision blurry and particularly affect your night vision. You may notice that lights look fuzzy, streaky, or surrounded by haloes at night, which can make driving difficult.

Do you need glasses to drive if you have astigmatism?

Astigmatism causes this light to refract in favor of one direction over the other, resulting in blurry vision and light halos. Astigmatism can vary from mild cases that require minimal or no correction to extreme cases needing a strong glasses prescription or even surgery.

What's it like to drive at night with astigmatism?

Astigmatism is a common eye condition and larger astigmatisms can make your vision blurry and negatively impact night vision and driving. If lights appear fuzzy, streaky, or are surrounded by haloes while driving at night it can make navigating the roads after dark tricky.