Location of GPS

I think he was after some positve advice. I dont think negative advice will help him. Michael

generally,
when one gets older the close smaller printed word becomes harder to read until you actually should have to wear glasses to read ...but Your VISION for distances one needs to have for driving Is As GOOD as the younger person in the next car.

Ever noticed some people holding a book or newspaper, or even their watch, back further than the norm ..say at arms length...its so they can focus on (the near) small print...this gets worse as time goes on till you finally stop being vain and go get +1 (or +1.5 or what ever) glasses from the CHEAPY STORES. Vision of being able to focus at further distances is not impaired at first.. it is just the nearness of the smaller items that become so hard to focus upon, .....but as you become older further distances MAY become more of a problem, like street signs and then cars etc etc.....another reason why it is that when we get to a certain age one must have a medical clearance to get a licence....

i'm guessing your still young enough and dont need glasses.......however, i can tell you, that you will suffer this impairment sooner or later

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Its called aged related presbyopia. From WP : "Presbyopia (Greek word "presbys" (p??sß??), meaning "old man" or "elder", with Latin root "-opia", meaning "eye"[1]) describes the condition where the eye exhibits a progressively diminished ability to focus on near objects with age. Presbyopia's exact mechanisms are not known with certainty, however, the research evidence most strongly supports a loss of elasticity of the crystalline lens, although changes in the lens's curvature from continual growth and loss of power of the ciliary muscles (the muscles that bend and straighten the lens) have also been postulated as its cause.

Similar to grey hair and wrinkles, presbyopia is a symptom caused by the natural course of aging; the direct translation of the condition's name is "elder eye"[1]. The first symptoms (described below) are usually first noticed between the ages of 40-50. The ability to focus on near objects declines throughout life, from an accommodation of about 20 dioptres (ability to focus at 50 mm away) in a child to 10 dioptres at 25 (100 mm) and leveling off at 0.5 to 1 dioptre at age 60 (ability to focus down to 1-2 meters only)."

My visual change is due to my age (55), unlike Navaraman, who is likely to suffer vision loss through other causes :-)

Bob

geez Bob...your too technical for me....... but I suffer from it too..hahaha

That's what I use. I also stick a peaked cap over it so from outside the car it just looks like a hat sitting on the dash & acts like a sun visor when using it.

Cheers

Mark

A copy of my Navman S80 on dash of 2007 Prado D4D
Navman S80 on Prado dash

And this is one without the Navman on pushbike
On my pushbike without Navman

Pedro