Anyone failed a vision test?

[Woosta]

I just did for the driver's license test and it seems I may need glasses. Has anyone failed a vision test and somehow passed a later one? ( without glasses ).

Damn computer usage!

 

[mortong]

Just see an optometrist already...

 

[Freshgeardude]

how would you not already know you need glasses lol

 

[Woosta]

How ironic my avatar has glasses. Ahhh, foreshadow.

 

[amdhunter]

You could just memorize the charts here in NY. I know a few people that have done it.

Personally, I think that it is retarded to drive without glasses if you need them. I refuse to drive when I can't find my glasses. I know I am very dangerous without them on.

 

[Locut0s]

Originally posted by: freshgeardude
how would you not already know you need glasses lol

Quite easily.

Your brain VERY quickly adapts to semi permanent changes in your vision. The world could look pretty damn blurry to you and for the most part you wouldn't notice for most every day tasks. You just adapt and assume that's the way the world looks. Even for reading and such you would automatically hold the book at whatever distance required to focus not necessarily realizing that others don't need to hold it that far/close.

 

[Brovane]

Originally posted by: freshgeardude
how would you not already know you need glasses lol

I went in about 5 years for my DL renewal I had no idea that my left eye had started to have blurry vision while my right eye was fine. Basically my right eye was compensating for me. I barely passed my vision rest when they had me do one eye and then the other. I was very shocked. I now wear glasses.

 

[BoomerD]

For years, I'd do anything to avoid having to have "Corrective Lenses" on my license.

With a class A, that means much more than it does for the average driver.
(among other things, the law requires you to always carry a spare pair...just in case)

Finally, it got so I could no longer "squint" my way through the tests and I accepted the fact that I was getting old...and now wear glasses all the time.

It sux because when I was young, I had 20/15 vision.

 

[Excelsior]

I failed one for the first time when I was taking drivers ed and they checked all of our vision. I must have been about 14, or just turned 15. Turns out my vision had been kind of bad for at least a couple of years but as Locut0s explained, I had adjusted/gotten used to it. I was shocked I failed the test and took it a 2nd time. Yep, I needed correction.

 

[MotF Bane]

Originally posted by: freshgeardude
how would you not already know you need glasses lol

If it's deterioration, your eyes/brain will make you think nothing has changed, it just adapts. If your vision has always been terrible, you never know what you are missing.

 

[QED]

My vision is absoutely horrible (required surgery when I was 3, and until they invented polycarbonate I wore coke bottle glasses)-- yet I was still able to pass the vision test sans presciptive eyewear... so I'm guessing if you failed it you need to see an optometrist, STAT!

 

[RichardE]

On Wednesday I finally got my eyesight tested. Turns out I have sever nearsightedness and I am just above the legal limit to drive.

I knew going in I had an issue due to school (seeing the boards etc) never noticed it before that.

 

[vital]

just wear contacts