Comment on Drivers over 70 to undergo eye tests every three years under plans to improve road safety | LBC
Th3D3k0y@lemmy.world 2 days ago
This is something I have suggested around my circles for a long time. But to keep it away from “age-discrimination” I’d be happy to have a re-test every 5 years when your license expires. Alternating between retaking the written test and practical test. So driving test every 10.
Tangentism@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
Make it compulsory for EVERY driver annually and enforce it through insurance companies levying an additional tax on a policy for failure to supply an eye test certificate when renewing.
There have been various incidents where drivers with defective eye sight who were well under 70. The death of Eilidh Cairns being a prominent one where the police failed to do anything about the driver after he killed her on her bike and he later killed a 98 year old holocaust survivor while she was on a zebra crossing
Th3D3k0y@lemmy.world 2 days ago
My most favorite story about eyesight:
I went to the BMV here to get my license renewed. I am in line about 3-4 people back and an old man, presuming like 75-80 is at the counter. Lady is effectively yelling at the dude he is so hard of hearing, “put your face against the visor, you will see a light blink to the left or the right, just tell me which side you see the blinking light”. A regular peripheral vision test.
Man puts his face against the visor, and stands there. Lady asks “do you see a light?”. Man responds “What light??”. This goes back and forth about 5 to 6 times. Eventually the lady just says “THERE IS A LIGHT ON THE LEFT DO YOU SEE IT?”. The Dude fully pivots his entire body to look left within the visor, “oh yea I see a little light”. She asks for a signature and he goes to get his picture taken.
Man in front of me turns around, he and I just look at each other in disbelief that he just legally got permission to drive a car. He cannot hear anything, and can barely see anything, in a car on the road.