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Just wondering !
Steve
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I think so yes. Someone I know is missing one eye and can drive.
I know that doesn't definitely answer your question but it's a start!
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yup - no problem. (legally)
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TourVanMan TM < Ex RF >
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From the DVLA Site:
Complete loss of vision in one eye:
Must notify DVLA, but may drive when clinically advised that the driver has adapted to the disability and the prescribed eyesight standard in the remaining eye can be satisfied and there is a normal monocular visual field in the remaining eye, i.e. there is no area of defect which is caused by pathology.
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My BiL has been blind in one eye since childhood and had no problem getting a licence.
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Thanks all, just wondering how difficult it would be to adapt to estimating relative distances / speeds etc that come with stereoscopic vision.
Steve
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Not difficult at all. Believe a lot of people lack true stereoscopic vision anyway. I know I do and can judge speeds and fine distances without any problem.
You can get a class one medical certificate to fly jumbo jets without stereoscopic vision so I daresay it provides no impediment at all.
As far as I'm concerned I see the world in 3D and can judge as such. Can't catch to save my life, but that might just be because I'm inept at it. My dad has perfect vision and can't catch either.
Interestingly, if I'm not expecting to catch something (ie, someone has just thrown something to me that I didn't expect them to), I can snatch it from the air without any problem.
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34 years of driving, 28 years of league cricket, 27 years of league tennis, 25 years of of very low level league football! All since the age of 25 with very poor vision in one eye. (I was driving and playing cricket within 3 months).
IIRC stereoscopic vision when the head is stationary is only beneficial for objects within about 10-20m. You learn very quickly to adjust the position of your one eye by moving the head hence gaining additional perspective information. When driving the additional movement of the vehicle gives you more information. The one thing you MUST be conscious of is the additonal blind spots behing the A pillars, or in a Picasso or A class the 4 'A' pillars.
Is there a technical name for the additional windscreen pillars????
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pmh (was peter)
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Exactly. I'm not aware of not having stereo vision - and in many ways it's a bonus, as I can independently switch between dominant eyes.
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Put your finger up in front of your eyes about 12 inches away.
If its actually about 12 inches away and you only see one of them then you have stereoscopic vision.
Stereoscopic vision is a cpu processing thing anyway and not really to do with the actual eyes.
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TourVanMan TM < Ex RF >
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My father was blind in one eye after an accident in the 1920's and drove without problems although no DVLA to worry about in those days. I still have his licence issued in the 1930's.
Towards the end of his life he developed a cataract in his good eye and driving with him became a bit fraught to say the least .
He was awaiting the cataract operation when he died in 1969.
He used to turn our stomachs as kids describing the eye operation that he had in hospital in the 20's under a local anaesthetic.
He told us that they took his bad eye out and operated on it on his cheek while he was able to watch with his good eye.....I never found out whether he was telling the truth or not.
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My wife is blind in one eye, and this didn't cause any problems with getting a licence, or passing the test. (*)
Stereoscopic vision is basically irrelevant - beyond a few metres, you're not using it.
What does cause problems though is simply the reduction in her field of view. Being blind in her right eye means it's much more work to check what's happening on that side. Checking the driver's wing mirror means turning her head, and looking back over her sher shoulder to check the blind spot is even harder.
[As an aside, she actually had a shunt during her test; she got bashed from the side on a roundabout. The look on her instructor's face was apparently priceless when he saw the state of the car as she drove back into the test centre. But she passed - the examiner was confident it wasn't her fault.]
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Yes.One of my work colleagues who is blind in his left eye, drives and rides a motorbike.He is also one of the best welders I have ever seen.
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Being blind in one eye is not as bad as having a left-hand (say) impairment in both eyes. I know two people who have had mild strokes that have left them with impaired vision to the left. They are not allowed to drive, and the condition almost certainly will never correct itself.
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A very good friend of mine, "One eyed Mick" was actually employed as a truck driver.
As his name indicates, he had but one eye, with which, it was reckoned, he saw more than most people see with two.
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