The rules for who can drive were written before a car could see the road on its own. We are working to find out whether that should change, and we need people who live this question to stand up and be counted.
To get a license in most states you need 20/60 vision or better. Millions of people see a little worse than that, well enough to read, work, and recognize a hazard, but not well enough to pass the test. For them, losing the ability to drive often means losing a job, or independence itself.
That vision line was drawn decades ago, for a person driving alone with nothing but their own eyes. Cars are different now. Many can see the road continuously through cameras, with no blind spots and no fatigue, and can act faster than any person. Nobody has seriously studied what that means for the vision rules.
So here is the question the foundation wants answered honestly: when the vehicle is helping do the seeing, does the driver's own vision still need to meet the same number? Maybe it does. Maybe it does not. The point is that no one has measured it, and the people it affects most have never been asked.
No jargon. Here is the whole idea in three pieces.
People whose vision is too limited to pass the driving test, but better than the point where disability help begins. Capable, working-age, and overlooked by both systems.
Modern vehicles now watch the road themselves. That technology did not exist when the vision standards were set, and it may change what is actually safe.
We are working with the goal of a real, university-run study to measure this properly and, if the evidence supports it, to help update the rules fairly.
Just enough to know you fit and to reach you later. That is all we are asking for.