What to Do If Your Vision Doesn't Meet the Requirements for a Driver's License?

[McKimberly]

If your vision doesn't meet the requirements for a driver's license, you can wear glasses to correct it. As long as your corrected vision meets the vision requirements for the driver's license physical examination, you are eligible. If even with correction your vision doesn't meet the standards, you cannot obtain a driver's license. For applicants applying for large buses, tractors, city buses, medium-sized buses, large trucks, trolleybuses, or trams, the naked or corrected vision of both eyes must reach 5.0 or above on the logarithmic visual acuity chart. For other types of vehicles, the naked or corrected vision of both eyes must reach 4.9 or above on the logarithmic visual acuity chart; applicants must also not have red-green color blindness. For those applying to drive manual transmission cars, the motor function of the lower limbs must be normal, and the difference in length between the lower limbs must not exceed 5 centimeters. For those applying to drive automatic transmission cars, the right lower limb must be sound.