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New Mexico Adds Online Vision Test for Drivers

Wed, 03/28/2001 - 1:00am — Karen Stevenson
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The New Mexico Motor Vehicle Division has announced the availability of a more comprehensive, online vision test. The online eye exam is available only at motor vehicle offices in Albuquerque, Santa Fe and two other cities, but by but eventually will become available to anyone with a computer video-conference camera. The online eye exam tests for long-distance vision, night vision, peripheral vision and color blindness, a more comprehensive vision test than that required by New Mexico law to be able to drive. Gorden Eden, director of the state Motor Vehicle Division Eden said the more comprehensive eye exam should improve highway safety by testing elderly drivers more thoroughly, saying, "The aging driver is becoming a greater risk than male teens."

The New Mexico Motor Vehicle Division has announced the availability of a more comprehensive, online vision test. The online eye exam is available only at motor vehicle offices in Albuquerque, Santa Fe and two other cities, but by but eventually will become available to anyone with a computer video-conference camera. The online eye exam tests for long-distance vision, night vision, peripheral vision and color blindness, a more comprehensive vision test than that required by New Mexico law to be able to drive. Gorden Eden, director of the state Motor Vehicle Division Eden said the more comprehensive eye exam should improve highway safety by testing elderly drivers more thoroughly, saying, "The aging driver is becoming a greater risk than male teens."