AIBU to go for a drive to see if my eyesight is, like a suspect, getting worse?

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Dominic Cummings thinks this is the correct thing to do. He thought his eyesight may be worse due to being ill so got behind the wheel and went for a drive around to check.
Vote No if you think going for a drive is a good idea.

‘ I suspect’ should be in the title btw!

Vote No if you think going for a drive is a good idea.
YABU
There is no "No"
Explain which option means what

If you go for a drive you must try hard to remember if you have to stop for petrol though.

Presumably he is unable to measure out 20m from the back of his car like the rest of us...…

From gov.uk highway code

Standards of vision for driving
You must be able to read (with glasses or contact lenses, if necessary) a car number plate made after 1 September 2001 from 20 metres.

It’s ok if you go as long as it’s not to enjoy your surroundings

Sorry if it’s not clear - I am in a rather frustrated mood.
Vote ‘no’ as in ‘not’ in the YANBU.

Vote YANBU if you think driving is a good way of testing your eyesight.

It's absolutely the most reasonable thing to do.

Make sure you take a small kid with you.

Unescorted yes - maybe he was too ill to use google to look that up.
Also (whilst he thought his eyesight was dodgy?) he took his young child out in the car in the local area and they had to stop for his child to have a wee. So what happened on the drive from London to Durham?

Maybe they put the kid in pull ups on the long drive so they wouldn’t have to worry about him needing a wee?

And the eyesight thing is one of the most irresponsible excuses for going for a drive that I’ve ever heard.

That's the very first thing you are asked to do in a practical driving test.
"Please drive to a castle half an hour away with your family as passengers".

It's very important for safety to check your eyes work!

That's the very first thing you are asked to do in a practical driving test
"Please drive to a castle half an hour away with your family as passengers"
This is the manoeuvre I was hoping for in my test but got reversing into a bay instead!

Jesus fucking Christ. How many more threads!!!!!

"Please drive to a castle half an hour away with your family as passengers"

He didn’t drive to a castle...

I need to check my eyes frequently and always do this by loading my family into a car and driving 30 mins to a nice town.

I find we often need a wee when we get there and so have to go for a walk in the woods.

This is well within the rules of lockdown and so I have done this 3 times a week through the whole Corona situation.

Absolutely sensible advice........just like pouring petrol on a bonfire to get in going.

My eyesight is terrible so to make a change from using a chart, my optician just tells me to remove my glasses and go for a drive. If I hit more cars than I did last appointment, she knows my eyesight has deteriorated

Could his wife not drive??????

Dominic Cummings arriving for his eyesight test...complete with his family he cares so much about in the car..

(Stolen from Twitter legends)

Barnard castle is a town not a castle?????
Well that changes everything.

@SquishySquirmy the town is named after the castle it surrounds

Well, there are castle ruins in the town of Bernard Castle. Not sure exactly where he went tho.

OP: so long as you life nowhere near me, please do use a test drive to check out your eyesight.

I’ve got cataracts... think I’ll go for a thirty mile drive to see if they’ve got any worse. Might take a small child with me to keep me company.

Well I was going to wait for my consultant and the DVLA to decide if I am safe to drive due to epilepsy.

Fuck it.

Could his wife not drive??????

I kept hoping one of the journalists would ask this. If my husband felt even slightly like he couldn't see well enough to drive, I would insist on driving us.