Reading glasses with negative corrective power?

It’s because they are not designed for distance, and are not meant for mandatory distance correction needs, such as driving a car or flying a plane.

This is quite confusing to me. As a near-sighted person, you should be able to read (a near-vision activity) without needing correction. You’d need that -2.0 for the distance activities (driving, etc.) Anything with a negative correction should not be labeled “reading glasses.”

I have no quarrel with reading glasses warning you away from usage for distant-vision activities. I also was not aware that non-prescription negative correction lenses were available.

Like I said, I’m confused ;-)

@zenvelo But how are they not “designed for distance” when they correct my vision to allow me to see in the distance?

@picante My thoughts exactly – I wasn’t aware that they were available, so I bought them, but the label confuses me.

@Vincentt You wear them for driving against recommendation, get in an accident, they’ll tell you “we said they aren’t for distance.”

@zenvelo But why would they say that if they are for distance? Other glasses manufacturers apparently don’t get sued for their glasses. Which makes sense, since they’re clearly not at fault.