Over 70 driving eye test

Well they would, wouldn't they? The whole essence of Left wing AgitProp style propaganda is to accuse other people of the exact thing they are about to do. And call them right wing extremists.

They copied Goebbels: "Accuse the other side of that which you are guilty"

I found this reference on Reddit..

"It's a misquoted/mistranslated section of Joseph Goebbels' speech at the 1934 Nuremberg Rally.

"The cleverest trick used in propaganda against Germany during the war was to accuse Germany of what our enemies themselves were doing. Even today, large parts of world opinion are convinced that the typical characteristics of German propaganda are lying, crudeness, reversing the facts, and the like."

The speech is pretty long. It's just an excerpt from the 2nd paragraph.

Full speech/source:

No idea who you are talking about.

If you mean at your optician or the NHS then probably no, not the same. These two places will be testing each eye separately and also by varying the intensity of the flashes to ascertain what is wrong with your *eyes* whereas the DVSA are only interested in how good your binocular vision is.

So do you mean the DVSA are making you have a Visual Field test every year ?. This would have to be at Specsavers anyway

I can't see the changed requirements for over 70s boiling down to that, I think provided you've made an appearance at an opticians within 3 years and can read the n'th line up on the chart, and the optician has no other reason to refer you to your doctor, or for the field test, then you'll be golden ...

The problem is certain people with below standard eyesight will do anything they can to mislead the DVSA, and sadly, there will be a ready (small) cohort of Opticians who will fill that requirement.

Getting fake documents to open bank accounts and falsify ID seems to be quite easy. Getting a piece of paper claiming a 20/20 vision will be no problem.

I suspect this is one of the reasons why the DVSA decided to only use the test results from their chosen firm of opticians, Specsavers.

You also need the correct kit. The DVSA exam is not a diagnostic one. Even if you have the hardware, you need to have paid for the right level of functionality to be able conduct the approrpiate test. I suspect few opticians would want to make that investment for a few tests a year. Bearing in mind the field test is not standard. It gets requried when the license holder tells the DVSA they have been diagnosed with a condition that warrants testing.

It used to be the case that opticians were not able to report any patients who they diagnosed directly to the DVSA. Certainly when I went through the process. Maybe that has changed ?

Once you have reported yourself to the DVSA, then they set the rules.

The current requirements do not actually include binocular vision.

Any particular brand ? Adverts for the things have been a rash on my facebook feeds recently and when that happens I tend to ignore things completely.

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Wonder what the law or construction and use regs say about having a mirror pointing backwards so objectionable lights get reflected back to their origin?

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Now that car headlamps have got so bright I find driving across the New Forest which I live on the edge of a lot harder than I used to when lights were yellowish from old fashioned lamps , I find now on a long straight that an approaching vehicle on main beam can affect vision 1/4 or even 1/2 mile away. The choice is the two drivers approaching each other dazzle each other or dip far earlier than was once necessary , either is bad for seeing the free ranging animals that wander across but the latter is probably worse from that point of view as you have a fairly long unilluminated area of road between the two vehicles where animals could be so you have to drive quite slowly to avoid hitting one. Still see people who think it is fine to drive at the 40 limit or even faster in such circumstances, as well as the suffering caused to the animal and its owner hitting something like a horse or cow at that speed usually does enough damage to a modern car that it becomes a write off. Neighbours hit a Deer which was enough to write off their two year old VW E golf which from 15 yards away only appeared to have creased bonnet, bent grill and a broken headlamp. Drivers in other areas with unfenced roads like on some moors maybe experience similar.

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Wellington or Walking?

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Sheep roaming on road verges and sometimes on the road[1] is fairly common around here. Drivers had learned to treat them with a good deal of care - since you can never predict when a sheep, happily cropping the verge, will decide to cross the road right in front of you. For over a decade, there has been a dearth of sheep, only now have the numbers started to increase. This means there is a new generation of road users who don't understad this particular 'Rule of the Road'. Hitting a sheep at speed can easily write off a car and possibly even the driver.

I meant, the DVSA are only interested in your field of view with

This can of course be achieved with just one eye, if that is all you have.

The DVSA (via Specsavers) do not test each eye separately (assuming you have 'vision' in both eyes).

In message snipped-for-privacy@mid.individual.net>, at 14:13:06 on Mon, 12 Jan 2026, Marland snipped-for-privacy@btinternet.co.uk> remarked:

'SP Headlight Glasses' it says on my credit card bill. There's no branding on the actual specs.