Can't get a driver's license due to poor eyesight?
Hello,
I've heard that there are people who supposedly have such bad eyesight that they can't get a driver's license (person has about 7-9 diopters).
Nowadays you can get glasses that can be adjusted so that anyone can get a driver's license if they really want to.
The person I'm talking about also rides a bicycle in traffic, even in the dark in the morning.
With the dioptric number in itself, it will not be related to your acquaintance, because under normal circumstances, such a short-sightedness with glasses or contact lenses can be very well corrected and so extremely high that it would be impossible to get a driving permit alone, the values you mentioned are not.
I’m just under -10 diopters and have no problems with proper correction to reach more than the Visus (at least 0.7) prescribed for driving, so it’s normal, just with glasses as a condition in the driver’s license to drive.
My brother even has far over -20 diopters, even he has a driver’s license, but contact lenses are mandatory for him because he does not come to the required visus with glasses due to the extreme reduction of the strong spectacle lenses.
My friend is also very short-sighted in similar areas and has passed the vision test for the driving licence with correction (glasses or contact lenses). I don’t know how high his values were at that time, but in any case high double-digit. It is also now ensured that its visual acuity with glasses is sufficient for driving; he lets him check and confirm this with his regular ophthalmologist appointments.
In addition to his short-sightedness, your acquaintance probably has any other problem with his eyes, a disease or something neurological, which makes the visual acuity worse than usual.
My friend has 8 diopters and drives quite normal in road traffic and has got the driver’s license easily.
It is also my thought that it is an excuse to protect himself or his self-esteem. He did not have the greatest
Whether someone has a driving licence test with or without glasses depends initially on whether the person reaches a visual scan of 0.7 (70%). This can also be the case with -20. If, however, he does not make it with the best possible glasses/contact lenses, then there is a chance to make the driver’s license even more one-eyed by a medical certificate.
Of course, a lot of nonsense is told and written, especially here on the Internet.
Nowadays you get glasses that can be set so that everyone can make a driving licence if he really wants.
There are many ways in the eye that you can’t see sharply and this cannot be corrected with any glasses in the world. Goggles are not miracles, they only change a light beam, more should and cannot. Therefore, there are also many people who cannot make a driving licence.
He has to do a vision test. If he does, it’s all good. Of course with glasses.
Just call one – or more – driving schools and ask. They know!
you heard bullshit!
But if my thought is also because I can say no about it because I am not a spectacle wearer, I posted