In the car I do not have to much of a problem with glare, probably due to wear the GPS is located on an A/C Vent, now on the motorcycle it's a different story, it's almost impossible to stop the glare, guess the hood might help and I do have a small one but it's no help, so what I do during daytime hours is put it on the night mode and turn the brightness up to 100% and this is a little better, since mine is an older model there are no plug to use speakers or earplugs, so hearing the instructions for me is out........so far it's worked fairly well, of course I could jack up the volume to 100% but then everyone around me would also here her talking and I don't really appreciate all that talking.........lol