On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 22:37:18 -0000, Conor was popularly supposed to have said:
Oh my god...
I reckon that this sort of thing ought to result in a driving ban, or something. Mind you, the current sort of testing of car drivers eyesight (HGV tests are probably more stringent) is incredibly lax.
If you can read a plate from a stupidly short distance, you pbutt.
Watch out in those supermarket carparksI disagree. Having wide spaces available to make it possible to get young kids in and out makes a huge difference. Trying to get a baby into a car seat with cars parked right next...
No proper eye testing, nor even machine-based eyesight buttessment. No visual field testing. No low-light vision testing. No buttessment by an optician to look for things like incipient glaucoma, which steadily robs someone of their peripheral vision.
We can pretty much show that accidents are largely not caused by exceeding speed limits (excessive speed for the conditins being different in many cases), and the road traffic research labs reckon that bad observation is the cause of most other accidents.
How many accidents are down to crap eyesight and-or not wearing prescribed glbuttes, I wonder?
Stupid and vain, I reckon. That doesn't have to be so; just spend a bit on a reasonably good pair of glbuttes that actually suit you, have good frames and antireflect lenses, and you normally do alright and you don't look like a prat (or at least glbuttes don't make me look any more of a prat than I already look...).
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