I'm Going Blind!

[Flatcap]

Got the Learners Licence 3 months ago and passed the eyesight test with no worries

Tried to book for the Restricted today and failed the eyesight test

Clearly I am going blind because no reasonable testing equipment could be so fucked up, could it? Could it really be such a piss useless excuse for testing that it gives a completely different result over three months?

Do these places need to have certification on their eyesight machines to ensure they are set up correctly?

So it's off to the Optomitrist for me to fork out more cash get a certificate that my vision is fine.

Bastards

[ZorsT]

same thing almost happened to me....

But it was 7 months... Is crazy.

[Big Chim]

Yeah i just had that happen to. the lady there said come back when they open cause if you have been sitting in front of a computer or the like then it makes your eyes tired and harder to focus. Funny thing was i almost bluffed my way through hahaha. I hat the O's D's and Q's they all look the same hahaha

[C_A]

I had a bitch of a time when replacing my lost licence card around a year ago, but flew through a couple of months ago when geting bike learners. depends heavily on the difference in lighting from outside, to the insed of the licencing place, and things like fatigue etc, not a very good test IMO

[Flyingpony]

Do the eye sight test first thing in the morning.
Seems to be easier to read using one eye at a time.
Just need to remember there are three columns as each eye can only see two.

[Flatcap]

Do the eye sight test first thing in the morning.
Seems to be easier to read using one eye at a time. Just need to remember there are three columns as each eye can only see two.

Good points, but tried them all. Last time the three columns were clear as a bell. This time there was no column to the left, so either my left retina has detached or the machine was set up incorrectly.....

[Nicksta]

No your not going blind!!!!!
those testing machines are crap on a good day..... and half the people dont know how to work them properly....
back when i had good vision they failed me cos they couldnt work the machine and i went to the optometrist and passed.... my advice... before going for any test with the AA.. .go to an optometrist and get a certificate... i have done that 3 times now.... and it speeds up the lenghty visit too....

[trumpy]

These machines are notoriously unreliable. When this technology first arrived quite a number of optometrists tried it. I know of none that use it now........I wonder why?

[Waylander]

I sometimes wonder if licence testers get a comission from optomitrists for failing peaple on the sight tests and sending them over for a full test and new set of unneeded glasses.

[sunhuntin]

my left column was missing too....went to opt and doc [wont do that again, what eye check at the doc requires him to listen to your heart? feckin pig!] but opt passed my eyes no worries. i do have a lazy left eye that occasionally causes double vision if im tired or not concentrating. hasnt happened on the bike yet, but does when im pillioning.

those eye tests are fucked, seriously. i tried closing one and reading with the other, didnt work. my right eye only picked up the middle and right columns, my left the same, cept my left blurred the letter beyond recognition, lmfao.

[onearmedbandit]

Waste of fucking time fullstop. No matter how good people's vision is, most go blind when the get behind the fucking wheel.

[2much]

Been there done that. I'm shortsighted in my left eye, the stupid thing is that if you fail with one eye, you have to wear glasses. However, if one eye is permanently damaged (ie, you can only see thru one) then that's not a problem!

Where's the fucken sense in that???

[Krusti]

Ya mother told ya it would happen

[Flatcap]

Ya mother told ya it would happen

Yeah, but as I recall it wasn't my left eye specifically, you perverted bastard

[DirtMad]

Good points, but tried them all. Last time the three columns were clear as a bell. This time there was no column to the left, so either my left retina has detached or the machine was set up incorrectly.....

I had the EXACT same experience. I had just renewed my cage full, then only ONE month later went back to the same place for my bike learners and couldn`t see that left column. I was f*cked off, but paid $$ to go to the optometrist and then passed.