Kicker: Driving blind

NICK EICHER, HOST: Well, one of the requirements to drive a car is passing a vision test.

But not always. Last week that requirement was set aside in the case of Michigan Supreme Court Justice Richard Bernstein.

Justice Bernstein has been blind since birth. But he’s long yearned for something, as he told television station WNEM:

BERNSTEIN: I've always wanted that feeling of what it's like to hit the gas or what it's like to turn on the ignition and what it's like to operate a steering wheel.

Well, Genesee County Sheriff Chris Swanson arranged for him to do those very things. Bernstein got to take a car on a dirt track with the sheriff riding shotgun and giving very specific directions.

SWANSON: Slow. Now, straighten it out, straighten it out. Soft left, soft left. He’s doin’ it!

Yeah, he’s doing it.

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