text: how does a blind person get their driver’s license? i’m in texas.  i have a friend who, because of his diabetes, for all intensive purposes is blind.  over a short period of time he’s had multiple injury accidents because he didn’t see the other drivers. i know for a fact he can’t see other drivers on the road too well or traffic signals until he’s right upon them.   when he went to get his license renewed, they made him take an eye exam which he failed. today he told me he got his license renewed.   he says he went the eye doctor, told her he’s a diabetic and would lose his independence.  the doctor wrote him a note exempting him from the eye exam.  not if, but when he has his next accident and people are hurt or killed, who will be liable? the insurance company which is aware of his multiple at fault accidents keeps insuring him and the eye doctor wrote him the note.  this doesn’t make any sense to me at all.  does either the insurance company or the eye doctor bear any responsibility for the next injury accident? from my recollection, people who fail the vision part of the driving exam get told to see an eye doctor.  it is up to the doctor to determine whether the problem is vision-related or cognitive, and whether it ought to keep the person from driving.  in the case of people who are legally blind or otherwise can't drive, the government does issue non-driver identification cards that can be used like a driver's licence for id, but not for driving.  if the eye doctor feels a person failed the vision part of the driving exam because of a temporary problem (an eye infection that affected vision temporarily, for instance), they can write out a pass that basically says "this person passed the exam at my office" for them to bring back to the dmv.  most of the time, though, it's left up to the doctor to explain to the 70-year-old why their eyesight is too bad for them to drive anymore.