Conversely, almost every woman driver I know has to be mindful of street lighting, sight lines and proximity to the sketchy white van that may or may not have puppies in it.
While it takes a great deal of practice for most people, you can learn to exercise your peripheral vision to strengthen your low-light sight.
He described lightning storms hundreds of miles long, shooting stars, the southern polar lights and low-light sights that "you can't capture photographically".
There's a bike path right next to the water and not a car or traffic light in sight for something like 20 miles.
Why Kielder? "It has 250 square miles of forestry, millions of trees and not a street light in sight," explains the event organiser Richard Darn.
To me, it was a vision of the city as it was imagined by the planners, such as they were, of last century: an automotive fantasy-land for the few, not a brake light in sight.
There's also the usual old archetype of the dark as something you need to traverse in order to arrive at some kind of reliable light or sight of reality.
AS the car crossed the Ponquoque Bridge and headed east on Dune Road in Hampton Bays, someone in the back seat said, "Are you sure there's something open down there?" It was late November and the road ahead was dark and desolate, not a person, car or light in sight.
