I use varifocals for driving but can still meet/exceed the legal requirement without glasses as my distance prescription is close to zero - as are most people after cataract operations.
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Mandatory eye tests for drivers over 70 being proposed by HMG. Good or bad?
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I have a,ways found with Varifocals and reaction lenses with antiglare, are to dark when indoors. The reason for having Distance Driving with all the treatments, In fact ordered a new pair last week after eye test which passed the driving sight test easily.
I need to be able to read the roadside signs asking me if me eyesight is good enough to drive 🙂
I wear varifocals most of the time but for the computer screens I have fixed focal length glasses set to my screen distance.
My Essilor transition lenses are virtually clear indoors and when driving. I explicitly selected them for that, and they only react when outdoors. Transitions do three types of reactive lenses each with different characteristics. There’s a whole thread on the topic.
I agree with the first sentence which is why this time around I went for Varifocals without the reaction. Cheaper as well.
In sunny conditions I use polaroid overglasses.
Mine used to be clear indoors and when driving but overtime they became permanently tinted.
All these specs🙀
No idea why but I never needed specs until my 40s. Only very mild prescription. Now I need no specs, have 20/20 vision, no OPs , no specs.
Apart from the PVD last year my eyes are as good as my teens. I can read small print but prefer low dose reading glasses if it’s getting dark.
Am I the exception?
No idea why but I never needed specs until my 40s. Only very mild prescription. Now I need no specs, have 20/20 vision, no OPs , no specs.
Apart from the PVD last year my eyes are as good as my teens. I can read small print but prefer low dose reading glasses if it’s getting dark.
Am I the exception?
I believe that gradually changing vision as one ages with increasing long-sightedness is normal with an optimum around age 20 - if you are long-sighted then you'll naturally become more long-sighted but if you're short-sighted you'll naturally become less so.
It's also normal that most people will develop cataracts over time but many will never be serious enough to justify an operation - the artifical lenses are usually chosen deliberately to give you a zero prescription, or close to it, so you won't need glasses for distance vision.
Now in my 80’s I started wearing glasses for reading only 40 years ago. For the last 25 years have had Varifocals. I picked up my new ones last week, and when had test asked if eyes could be tested using the old fashioned way of a frame and the. Optician adding lense rather the computerised way of recent years. I can honestly say the result is the best pair of glasses I have had for some time,as when the test was completed the quality of clear vision you see is what you get, when glasses arrive. This is they way they still do tests with home visits for the Elderly.
My opticians have always used the old method of changing lenses back and forth until I can make a decision on which one is best, before we move on.
Is that Boots or an Indie? Vision Express (me) and Specsavers (swimbo) use the old individual lens tests plus all the latest stuff. Green / Red , which dots look best and he has a hand held Lens etc. Maybe some tech stuff takes us too far in the wrong direction?
I use Boots, who also use later stuff like yours, and my last prescription I had made up by Lensolgy for transition varifocals reglazed in to my frames.
Ditto.
Gets a bit tricky at times when he asks 'Which one is better - 1 or 2" and you can't remember what the first one was like 🙂
Mine has stayed the same price for the past 5 years.
Same insurance company?
Through my seventies my vehicle insurance pricing was pretty consistent, get to into my mid eighties it has rocketed, just as the mileage covered has significantly reduced.
But having seen, and endured the driving of some of my peers I would not underwrite their insurance at any price.
But having seen, and endured the driving of some of my peers I would not underwrite their insurance at any price.
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Both MSE and AGE UK both write that for over 70s car insurance is likely to rise based on ABI statistics.
In my mid 80’s also and been no rises,actual dropped a few pounds. Only rose when 81 but that was due to changing to a new car 8 times the value of the previous one,
So what company is that I can add them to my list for renewal time.
Tesco
Strange old world the insurance business as Tesco were considerably more expensive for both myself and my wife when we renewed last October. So we moved from LV to AXA for me and SAGA for my wife.
Myself and wife both had Tesco for around 6 years as each year find nothing better when doing annual search. Insurers are strange as when I got a quote for wife’s car 2 years ago from LV they would not insure with me as a named driver as I was over 80. But then put the same car in with me as main driver and wife as named and they quoted. But still did not match staying with Tesco.
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Whilst I agree that regular eye testing should be mandatory for all drivers, it would be too big a change politically - but once it is mandatory for over-70s we can campaign to get the age reduced.
Regular training and assesment would lose too many votes so not palatable politically, regardless of it's merit.
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