The minimum acuity required for driver's licensing in most areas I have worked is 20/40 in the better eye WITH CORECTION. Acuity worse than that does not automatically indicate a person could not operate a golf cart safely. Also, there are many reasons for legal blindness some of which would not prevent an individual from operating a golf cart safely. Frankly, I would feel more comfortable with someone who had 20/100 vision and a full field of vision than someone who had 20/20 and no peripheral vision.
I worked closely with the California DMV in a program that extended restricted licenses to people that otherwise did not qualify visually. A DMV examiner would go to the person's home and have them drive to their bank, doctor, grocery store, etc., so they could demonstrate capability to operate the car for those necessary trips. Their license prohibited them from using freeways or other high speed roads and restricted them to daylight hours. By the time I left for TV, they had a lower incidence of accidents than regularly licensed drivers in their age group.
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