The Esterman test has been said to favour the lower field of vision, which it’s argued, by some, makes the test ineffective for accurately assessing your vision for driving.

Patients failing the Esterman visual field test twice had their results substantiated by the monocular Humphrey 30–2 test which in all cases confirmed the visual field loss.

For those who have certain eye conditions with enough sight to continue to drive, you may have heard of the Esterman Visual Field test.

This may be done in the same way as in our study with an Esterman Binocular test or using a similar, possibly a full threshold, wide-field peripheral VF test. It may be sufficient to only test the ...

Image: Adobe Stock. The headset uses Bluetooth to conduct full threshold, Esterman, 10-2, 24-2 and 30-2 visual fields and also evaluates for ptosis, contrast sensitivity, stereo and color vision.