↑今の★数累計です。
chuukyuuの好みで選んだベター･ヴィジョン協会のシリーズから。おまけその２．
選択の基準は、製品の人間化---つまり、性格づけ。
ペンシルベニアで、
健全な目の息子を膝にのせて
運転しました。
(抄訳)ハンドルを握った少年の指示にしたがい、運転したのです。
そう、アクセル･ペダルを踏み、ギア･チェンジを行いました。
退役将校によるこのハイウエイ走行が報じられると、みんな驚きました。
もちろん、ペンシルベニアの陸運局は禁止しました。
カンザスでは、法律上は盲目とされている１３６人が、有効な運転免許を保持していると分かりました。
現在、３１の州では視力の検査なしで更新手続をすましています。
人間の視力は加齢とともに変化しているのに、４０年間も検査なしで更新されているということです。
まあ、いずれは他の１９州に準ずるでしょうが。
正しい距離感とか、赤と緑がちゃんと色別できるかどうか、対向車のヘッドライトをまともにうけたときの回復時間などの検査も必要でしょう。
上記のような視力検査をこれまでお受けになっていなければ、安全運転のために今年こそはお受けください。
そう、あなたご自身を守るために。
Ｃ/Ｗ レオ･ンメドウ Leon Meadow
Ａ/Ｄ レン･シローイッツ Len Sirowitz
POTO ディック･リチャーズ Dick Richards
"LIFE" 1966.11.18
hiroysato さんが原文を"LIFE"誌のアーカイブから写してくださいました。
In Pennsylvania,
a blind man drove
with aseeing-eye boy
on his lap.
The boy steered and gave directions. The man worked the pedals and gear shift.
No one dreamed up this one. It appeared in an article on highway safety by O.D. Shipley, then Pennsylvania's Commissioner of Traffic.
Pennsylvania has since taken steps to make such happenings far less likely to happen again.
But don't go away.
In Kansas, 136 legally blind people were found to be holding valid driving licenses.
Kansas has since found ways to guard against this bit of madness.
But state after state still tolerates a far more common cause of potential manslaughter.
Today, in 31 states, you can get a driver's license renewed without having an eye examination. No eye test of any kind.
This mean a person could be driving far, say, 40 years without ever having a vision test. In that time (or lots less) his eyesight could have changed drastically. Or deteriorated utterly.
Sooner or later, these 31 states will follow the other 19 in requiring adequate vision testing when renewing licenses.
For your sake, we hope it's sooner.
Meantime, make sure your own license is, in fact, a license to see well enough to drive safety.
This means more than passing a routine eye-chart test (which is all that a number of states now require in renewing licenses).
And which tell you nothing about your ability to judge distances accurately. Or tell red from green. Or see sideways as well as straight ahead. Or know how fast your eyes recover from blinding headlight glare.
Unless you know, you could be a loser.
There's only one way to find out. If you haven't had a professional eye examination in the last year or so, get one. Learn how well you really see. Or how much better you could be seeing.
Fine, you say. But what's the good of having your eyes tested if the other guy - the one coming toward you - can't see where he's going? Indeed.
He's probably thinking the same thing. About you.
So both of you do it . Now. Better Vision Institute.
