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Aug. 1st, 2009 08:57 pmAfter many years of procrastination, I finally have my learner's driving licence. I have L -plates, though no car of my own to practice with just yet, but at least the first step is done.
The eyesight test at the AA was tricksy, though - given my lack of true binocular vision, I didn't integrate the two parts of what I was seeing with each eye directly, so didn't realise there were 12 letters per line (with the middle four shared) until it was pointed out. Oops. Far less of an issue for me in a real-life situation where I'm not being artificially forced to try to be stereoscopic, since I have other ways of compensating. All the same, you'll be happy to know that I won't be trying to drive without my spectacles on.
Theory was fine - but then I've been a road user for around two decades even if I haven't been using a car, and the stuff that pertains to using a car on the road wasn't too bad to study. Given how much time dad spent working in the Strategic Traffic Unit before retiring I'd be feeling pretty whakama if I'd failed that. Happily, the majority of our road rules are pretty consistent in terms of the various times and numbers we employ, and minor exceptions aren't too hard to remember.
So, wheels in progress.
The eyesight test at the AA was tricksy, though - given my lack of true binocular vision, I didn't integrate the two parts of what I was seeing with each eye directly, so didn't realise there were 12 letters per line (with the middle four shared) until it was pointed out. Oops. Far less of an issue for me in a real-life situation where I'm not being artificially forced to try to be stereoscopic, since I have other ways of compensating. All the same, you'll be happy to know that I won't be trying to drive without my spectacles on.
Theory was fine - but then I've been a road user for around two decades even if I haven't been using a car, and the stuff that pertains to using a car on the road wasn't too bad to study. Given how much time dad spent working in the Strategic Traffic Unit before retiring I'd be feeling pretty whakama if I'd failed that. Happily, the majority of our road rules are pretty consistent in terms of the various times and numbers we employ, and minor exceptions aren't too hard to remember.
So, wheels in progress.
