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Title: LMAO new york state!
Post by: gonzosc1 on September 27, 2011, 03:30:54 PM
New yorkers are no longer required to pass eye test to renew drivers lic.
 this is gonna get interesting. hope you have really good insurance!
Title: Re: LMAO new york state!
Post by: Outback_Jon on September 27, 2011, 03:39:49 PM
Don't know where you got your information:

Quote from: NY DMV website
All drivers must take a vision test when they renew their driver licenses. You can take the vision test by two methods:

    An eye-care professional must conduct your vision test, and complete form MV-619 or form MV-619R (Eye Test Report). The form MV-619R is included with your driver license renewal notice. If the form MV-619 or form MV-619R has a print date of 9/03 or earlier, the form is valid for 6 months after the date of the eye test. If the form has a print date of 3/04 or later, the eye-care professional marks a box on the form to indicate if the form is valid for 6 months or for 12 months after the date of the eye test.

    Mail form MV-619 or MV-619R that your eye-care professional completed with your renewal application.

    An eye-care professional in another state or country can complete form MV-619 or form MV-619R. The eye-care professional must report the results on the Snellen visual acuity scale. The eye-care professional must complete the form in English. The eye-care professional must provide a professional license number if a number was assigned by the other state or country.

    You can send a form or a letter from a motor vehicle office in another state that indicates that you passed a vision test at a motor vehicle office in that state during the past six months. The form or letter must indicate that you passed a vision test for a visual acuity of 20/40 (or better) on the Snellen Visual Acuity Scale.

     - or -
    Go to a NYSDMV office to take the vision test and renew your driver license. There is no additional fee to take the vision test at a DMV office.

I just renewed in May and I had to do the eye test.
Title: Re: LMAO new york state!
Post by: gonzosc1 on September 27, 2011, 04:10:12 PM
here you go.  it just past wed. you are allowed to "self certify" LMAO.
new drivers and CDL drivers still have to take eye test!

http://news.yahoo.com/york-abolishes-eye-test-renew-drivers-license-191523206.html (http://news.yahoo.com/york-abolishes-eye-test-renew-drivers-license-191523206.html)
Title: Re: LMAO new york state!
Post by: Ron Dawg on September 27, 2011, 07:53:03 PM
Don't know where you got your information:

I just renewed in May and I had to do the eye test.

Maybe the ones who needed it moved to FL? :o
Title: Re: LMAO new york state!
Post by: Strawboss on September 28, 2011, 11:11:01 AM
To be fair though, ever sit there while you wait and watch the folks take the "test"? I watched a quite elderly woman take the "test" 6 or 7 times over the course of 15 minutes being "coached" by the administrator before she eventually passed. Its a joke here in Ohio.
Title: Re: LMAO new york state!
Post by: Conrad on September 28, 2011, 11:50:42 AM
Wow! Now when someone runs over a MC they really can say that they didn't see it.
Title: Re: LMAO new york state!
Post by: stevewfl on September 28, 2011, 12:01:49 PM
Florida is proof that blind elderly people can vote and drive.
Title: Re: LMAO new york state!
Post by: Conrad on September 28, 2011, 12:05:31 PM
Florida is proof that blind elderly people can vote and drive.

Neither one all that well...
Title: Re: LMAO new york state!
Post by: Mad River Marc on September 28, 2011, 12:26:32 PM
Well, NJ did away with motorcycle inspections,  that cannot be good :(
Title: Re: LMAO new york state!
Post by: gonzosc1 on September 28, 2011, 01:47:50 PM
Well, NJ did away with motorcycle inspections,  that cannot be good :(

we have not had any inspections on anything here in SC for I'd say 10+ years now
Title: Re: LMAO new york state!
Post by: Outback_Jon on September 28, 2011, 03:26:49 PM
Well, NJ did away with motorcycle inspections,  that cannot be good :(

NJ's motorcycle inspections were pretty much a joke anyway. 
Title: Re: LMAO new york state!
Post by: Stasch on September 29, 2011, 12:04:27 PM
What's a MC inspection? 

(Have never had 'em in MI)