<p>With your driving test, on the vision exam, is the eye machine split by a partition to where half of the letters/numbers are on each side or is it just in the middle of the machine to where you can read it with one eye?</p>
<p>Ours looks like a binocular on the counter, if that helps. But can you read the letters with one eye or do they test each eye seperately?</p>
<p>Wow, we never had to do anything like that…they just had an eye-exam board hanging on the wall and we had to read it off from a certain distance away.</p>
<p>Indiana’s tests both eyes. In the same row of letters, the first 1/3 is read by one eye, the middle 1/3 can be read by either eye, and the last 1/3 tests the other eye. OUrs is a binocular looking machine, too.</p>
<p>I just told them I needed glasses in order to drive. They said I had to try the eye exam anyway. I looked into the binoculars and couldn’t read the first line.</p>
<p>so you didnt get your license?</p>
<p>No, I wear glasses and it says I need corrective lenses in order to drive on my license.</p>
<p>Wait, if you couldnt read the lines, how did you pass the exam? Is it not required for those who wear glasses?</p>
<p>Each eye tested separately in CA.</p>
<p>In Texas they test both eyes together.</p>
<p>In OK I had to look into a machine and the tester made me take off my glasses (I am blind as a bat without them). Told him I cannot see without them. Made me take them off anyway. He asked me to read the letters - I asked him what letters (just a white haze to me) - told me to put my glasses on. I still wonder 20 years later why I would say I need glasses if I did not. I think it was both together.</p>
<p>I’m only a little bit nearsighted. I passed the exam easily in CA but not in NY where as I recall it was one of those binocular thingies. Made me cross, though in fact I never go anywhere without my glasses.</p>
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<p>I couldn’t read them without my glasses. Hence why I have Corrective Lenses on my license.</p>
<p>In Maryland, you look into the machine, and it tests each eye separately.</p>
<p>Those of us who wear prescription lenses do the test while wearing our glasses or contacts. If we flunk even with the lenses, we don’t get a license (and we had better see an eye doctor quickly to get a new prescription). It is perfectly acceptable to try the test without your glasses/contacts, see whether you pass, and then try again with your lenses if you flunk the first time. My son, who normally wears glasses because of astigmatism but is not very severely nearsighted, actually passed the test without his glasses.</p>
<p>There are special rules for individuals who can only see out of one eye. Such people can get driver’s licenses, but I believe their exam must be done by a doctor, not at the MVA office.</p>
<p>Hmmm…I just got a new license about 3 weeks ago in Maryland. They did both eyes together. I had my glasses on. She told me to look through the binocular thing and read the last line. I did. Then she flashed little lights and I had to tell her whether they were on the left or right side. I did. That was it.</p>