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Has anyone taken a vision screening or know of anyone who has and failed? How can that be? I have driven a long time. I wear glasses and sometimes contacts. I can see fine out of both. When I go do eye exams I can see the chart ok even without glasses. So I look into the stupid binocular thing at DMV today and I saw only 8 letters. There were 5 rows of 8 letters. I tried looking with both eyes, then closing one eye. Rubbing my eyes. Dabbing. Anything. But the right side was so blurry. I don't know why. I got confused. So the mean DMV employee gave me this form so that my eye doctor can fill it out. I guess then I fill it out and return it to a DMV office in Richmond VA which is their headquarters. So don't know what happens. My license does expire at end of year. So don't know if I need to retake vision test at DMV or not. If I can't pass, then I guess I can't drive. The DMV employee was rude and not helpful at all. I have hard time reading rows because I don't know how many letters I'm supposed to read.

I have been driving for 27 yrs and I never passed the DMV eye exam.
I always had to go to my eye doctor to pass.
They can make a much more accurate diagnosis of vision ability.
Make an appointment with your eye doctor and you will probably pass!! !! !

If you don't pass, it just means you have to use corrective lenses

I got my license late at 17 in Virginia. Previously I held a license from a US military base in Korea. I do recall taking two previous vision screenings at DMV and passed without any issues. I do wear contacts and sometimes glasses. I think the previous two times I took the vision test I wore my contacts. Do you wear contacts, glasses, or neither? How could I fail this time when I can clearly see out of both eyes? I can drive fine. My eye doctor never told me to stop driving. How could you fail a vision test? Unless the equipment at the DMV are poor? When you got the form from DMV, do you automatically see your eye doc to get eyes checked, then bring the form back to DMV, get new picture for license and pay the fee? The DMV agent was very rude and didn't explain. He did tell me I failed and he gave me some form for a eye doc to fill out. I saw my eye doc in Jan, so I don't know if I should get another exam, then he fills it out then I take it back to DMV. I didn't pay anything, but the agent took my picture. Now in VA we just get this paper license, then DMV issues our real license by mail within 2 weeks. Used to customers just wait at DMV while the agent makes the license. It's so darn confusing. I just worry that I may be going blind. I'm younger than you too.

The eye doctor unlike the DMV test can get a much more accurate idea of how good you can really see.
I can't use the DMV test because of having a lazy right eye which moves like crazy when trying to focus on something.
Plus if you just need a new prescription for your glasses/contacts they can make that adjustment
testing you with the improvement. Giving you the best score possible.
I have always worn glasses and or contacts,
Just take the form the DMV gave you to your eye doctor to fill out since your vision is better than mine
you will pass with flying colors!
If you saw your eye doctor in January then you probably don't need another exam just have them fill it out for you
since it won't be an appointment you may have to wait a few days and pick it up or have them mail it back to you.
Once you have it just go to the DMV early and since 2/3 is done already you will be out very fast.

So you do ok at eye exams at your eye doctor even with the lazy eye? I know at times people tell me my one eye is looking at in different direction. But that's without glasses or contacts. I do have bad vision too. I wear a -7 on my left eye with contacts, and -9 on my right eye with contacts. I do see better with contacts. Perhaps I should have taken the vision screening at DMV with contacts in. So when you took the DMV vision screening can you read anything? I have the another copy of the DMV form that the DMV employee gave me also. It says for me to mail to DMV in Richmond VA. Also it says that the vision exam must be conducted without 90 days prior to submission of the report to DMV. Did the eye doctor explain why you failed the vision screening at DMV but do fine at his or her office?

But also DMV took a picture of me but I didn't pay anything. Do you pay DMV in person when you get new license or pay over mail when they bill you?

I failed once. One of the common sense questions had 4 very good answers and I chose the "wrong" one.

I wear glasses, so I didn't need an eye exam at all.

I had to take an eye exam with my glasses on. I think to have a drivers license in Michigan you have to take the test, no matter what. I passed, but I had to guess on several letters.

It would be hard to explain but the eye doctor takes a much more thorough test in which
they test both eyes together and individually. Calming the shaking of my lazy eye well enough
to see enough letters to pass. Plus the added benefit of checking if they could improve on your present prescription.
My vision without glasses is about 80/100 legally blind.
With glasses about 20/30 20/40 just passing.
If it ever drops below 20/60 20/60 I will no longer be able to drive.

I spent the whole weekend crying and having endless sleepless nights all over this stupid DMV issue. I want to ask my eye doctor in person how I do so well on his exams, but simply can't pass the stupid DMV test. Maybe their machine is outdated. I rather have DMV put a eye chart on the wall and I stand at a distance and read certain lines. That's a lot simpler than reading some stupid binocular looking thing.

Our BMV never changes the chart, so one can simply memorize the letters.

Ok so I have to see my eye doctor again this Friday. Apparently DMV says the exam has to be done within 90 days. So I had my exam done in Jan but its over that 90 day. AH well. The exam is $39, but I do have vision insurance, so the eye exam may just be a recheck. I hope he doesn't dilate my eyes that way I can simply go to DMV with the filled form, get a new picture, then get that paper license, pay the $32 fee then wait for my license to arrive by mail. The license in VA is good for 8 years now. I won't need to retake vision screening at all since I will have that form filled out by my eye doc.

I have an eye that turns in and down and unless I cock it around a certain way I can't even see the letters which would be my left eye. So I have a restriction on my license. But, since tax cuts took place in my state a lot of government offices had to cut back including our DMV. And to my surprised when I got my license renewed again, not only was I able to apply online but I didn't have to take that stupid eye test either. My license will expire in 9/2018 which will make me around 72 years old. But everyone don't met the conditions that I met and they will still have to go into the branch, get an eye test and renew every 4 years. Keeping my fingers cross and hope I can meet those conditions again when that time comes around.

When I was still taking those eye test, they did change our charts.

What can make the eye test difficult is that the device that the DMV uses projects a different set of letters to each eye (if I recall correctly, for each eye, there were three columns and two contained letters and the other was blank) , and depending on how the eyes work together, it can be difficult. My vision is weird in that I could see both sets of letters independently without the need to close one eye, depending on which eye I focus with (this is why many people can pass if they do close one eye). I did not pass the test because of shortsightedness, but once the optometrist filled out the form and got me set up with a prescription, I was good to go.
If I'm driving and I see something with my right eye, but not the left, it's very likely that what I was seeing is behind me, because only the right eye can see the rear-view mirror at that angle. Driving at night can be tricky sometimes though

I've heard that it is possible for people with vision in only one eye can drive if the other eye is capable enough.

I'm borderline legally blind & I took driver's ed & was able to get a learner's permit after failing the vision test because the vision doc I was seeing singed the form. I had a few restrictions on my permit thou; no interstate driving, no nighttime driving, had to have a side mirror. I only drove a couple times rite after I got the permit; I have problems focusing & mentally processing things I do see visually so I have no business driving. I had no problem getting the form at the DMV & getting my vision doc to sign it(he had told me before I took driver's ed that I could) & the DMV accepted it with no problems.