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On Tue, 15 Aug 2017 12:28:28 -0400, Frank Krygowski
wrote: On 8/15/2017 6:05 AM, John B. wrote: To be honest I drove for a short period after my cataracts were really badly effecting my vision. But one of the problems with failing vision is that you have, at least in my case, literally years to get used to it. The results are that right up to the time that you are nearly blind you feel that your vision is normal. After having a cataract removed there is a short period where the vision in that eye is so blurry that you just don't use it, but about a week after the operation you can use the eye and it is amazing how bright the colors are. And the detail! My God! I can see all the way across the road! That is not to say that everyone that hits a cyclist has cataracts but having experienced it I can see how it might happen. Of course, people will say things like "Well, you should have known", but how? After all your vision is just like it was yesterday. I wonder how many jurisdictions require vision tests with each license renewal? I know I've had to pass such a test. I think it may be more likely in the U.S. as I read articles about some state "back east" investigating an accident and discovering that one of the drivers was legally blind and with a great deal of furor changed the licensing laws to require an eye check after an individual reached a certain age. Over here you supposedly are tested for driving ability, vision and reaction time when you initially apply for a license. Subsequently one simply reapplies and pays the fee. Thai citizens can be issued a life time license and never have to renew it. My wife has been driving for something like 20 years on the same license :-) Unfortunately, I once observed one very old, very confused guy renewing his driver's license with the help of his daughter, who was a woman at least in her 50s. The old guy kept guessing wrong when reading the eye chart, which was contained within a countertop machine. He was also repeatedly confused about the button he had to push to turn it on. His daughter was pleading for them to give him a break because "He never drives at night!" Unfortunately, on about the sixth or seventh try he guessed enough of the letters right, and was turned loose on the world. :-/ -- Cheers, John B. |
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Flashing froint lights
On Tue, 15 Aug 2017 19:17:54 +0200, Tosspot
wrote: On 15/08/17 05:00, John B. wrote: http://tinyurl.com/y93sgm5s You can now buy personal flashing lights. Since, as we are taught here, flashing lights make you safe these may become essential to those living in California, where it is understood that flashing lights are necessary to protect lives. Think if it! Your very own flashing lights to keep you safe in even the most intimate situations. (I initially misspelled the word "situations" and my spell checker suggested "scintillations". However, I thought that perhaps some do not scintillate when intimate , so corrected it :-) I'm not convinced. They don't appear to be showing a steady or flashing red light to the rear. That will probably, assuming sufficient demand, be a part of the NEW! BETTER! 2018 design :-) -- Cheers, John B. |
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Flashing froint lights
John B. wrote:
http://tinyurl.com/y93sgm5s You can now buy personal flashing lights. Since, as we are taught here, flashing lights make you safe these may become essential to those living in California, where it is understood that flashing lights are necessary to protect lives. The "fisheye" (1 or 2 LEDs) lamps here that are very common has a flashing mode as well as a solid. So now some people have the flashing mode on - very annoying! In Denmark it is even more common. When it first started to appear a couple of years ago I stopped people and told them to use the solid state. That was when it was very uncommon. It is still uncommon but not uncommon enough for me to do it. Now I only stop people who has a red light in front or the white one to the back, or both. Immigrants from exotic countries almost exclusively. When I approach them they get so scared so when they hear about the lamps they are so relieved that was the whole thing so they change immediately -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 |
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