Madam, - Further to recent letters complaining about tinted car windows, with Duncan Martin suggesting "The Minister should give notice of a ban without delay" (August 10th), neither an outright ban or a free-for-all is the ideal solution.
Tinted windows reduce the amount of sunlight entering a car and thus reduce heat and damage from ultra-violet light to interior materials.
Therefore tinting serves a useful purpose and a reasonable compromise is needed.
After-market film-tinting of windscreen and front side windows should be illegal.
For all other windows, a legal requirement needs to be placed on the amount of VLT (Visible Light Transmission) required to pass through window film so that the driver's 360-degree visibility is not dangerously obstructed. - Yours, etc,
NIALL O'DONOGHUE, Narva, Finland.