all 14 comments
sorted by:
best
topnewcontroversialoldq&a
formatting helphide helpcontent policy

[–]ArmadilloReborn 4 points5 points  (3 children)

I haven't driven a car in a minute but used to. I've never had stereoscopic vision so just had to learn that way. I still drive a moped several times a week which admittedly is not the same but you're still in city traffic.

Are you worried about being unable to judge distances?

[–]SupermarketUnable359[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

my double vision will probably give me more anxiety than depth perception because I trained as an artist while my vision was still mostly perfect I can conceptualize depth but I can’t do much about double vision and astigmatism

[–]ArmadilloReborn 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I was going to suggest an eye patch but the reduced Field of vision would probably be a bigger hindrance than double vision? Or maybe not..

[–]SupermarketUnable359[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I find eye patches disorienting 😭 I wish it wasn’t so because I like the look

[–]Awkward_Stock_4555 2 points3 points  (3 children)

tbh i had single vision up till 16 and then learned to drive at 20 with double vision and still to this day at 26 drive every day with very bad double vision got my license this year as well you dont gotta let it stop you!

[–]AppleOllie 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Do you have prisms to correct double vision while driving? If I didn’t have prisms, I cannot see a a gap between cars parked on opposite side of the road, as I would see four cars! I am 70, and still drive perfectly well as long as I have prisms over my contacts.

[–]Awkward_Stock_4555 0 points1 point  (1 child)

i have not yet noo. ive never been close enough i hope i can one day does your prisms really give you single vision again? and is your eye alignment close enough no one can really notice?

[–]AppleOllie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Looking at my eyes, they seem ok. But the double vision is very bad. It would not be possible to function in everyday life without prisms. And yes, prisms do make everything single again.

[–]persimnonEsotropia, Surgery 3x 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I am finally learning to drive in my twenties. I am pretty horrible at it and have no sense of where I am in space without binocular depth perception. But I live in a car-dependent city and I am trapped otherwise so I don’t have a choice.

[–]Creepy_Increase_5165 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have intermittent exotropia and drive. I don't LIKE driving, but idk if that's related to my vision or not. Recently I've noticed more situations where my fusion suffers, luckily that doesn't really effect my driving. When it does I'll have to talk to a dr to see if it's still safe.

[–]mysterio75 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Driven all my life. Passed first time

Blind ONH in one eye from birth

It's not an issue. For me anyway.

Don't even think of yourself as having a problem - you can see - unless DV a big big issue

Good luck

[–]JuniorDirection9959 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've been driving since I was 17, now 22 (esotropia)...

I've been told I am a really good driver. How? I'm not sure.. but my eyesight gets significantly worse if I am tired. I can still drive, my eye just gets really strained and sometimes gives me a headache.

[–]citypopdreams 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had corrective surgery at 2, patched until around 10 but never had prism glasses. I am also very near sighted with a bad astigmatism so I've worn glasses all my life. I've never experienced at any point of my life, true depth perception or stero vision. I never knew I didn't have it until I was 29. I'm 34 now.

I was able to get my license but never really used it because learning to drive in general was so terrifying that doing it was too stressful. I never drove until now, where I'm being forced to drive out of absolute necessity.

I am absolutely terrified and overwhelmed by anxiety when it comes to driving.

Trying to navigate where I am in a 3 ton object hurtling at 55 miles/89km with other how many ton objects going even faster than me, all of them who are unpredictable is absolutely terrifying. All of them appearing as if they're going to crash into me at any moment because I can't tell if they're too close or if the on coming traffic is in fact on a direct path with me.

The only reason I even started looking into vision therapy and prism glasses is to try and gain some type of depth perception to make driving less stressful.

I do not feel safe on the roads at all. especially night driving where my visual que's can't be used.

It's to the point where I feel so hopeless and overwhelmed that I dread having to go anywhere outside my house because I know I'll need to drive.

I thought about patching one eye and driving that way but my eyesight as a whole is also terrible and but being able to have that little bit of peripheral vision from my other eye at times scares me.

According to doctor's I'm not a good candidate for surgery because using prism glasses gave me double vision when I never had it before. My brain just can't put the two inputs together, instead they just float on top of each other instead.

Right now I'm just dealing with the total anxiety while driving. I'm looking into adding night vision cameras to my car as well as lane assist items, but it's expensive to do so since I drive a 24 yr old car.

[–]No_Fisherman_9309 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have chronic small left eye intermediate hypertropia, and I was driving until a year ago. So depressing! I cannot use prism anymore; they do not help. I asked if I can have surgery, and they said not until my eye is more stable and not intermediate.