25-year-old Peter Davis has been taking lessons since he was 21, and he reckons he has the whole driving thing pretty much down pat. "My driving is perfect," he said, "I don't think I'm far off going in for my test."
Doors open for a man of his abilities, and even his car insurance for young drivers ought to be cheap as chips.
But his neighbours, from Burry Port in Carmarthenshire, have other ideas. They argue that Davis, who has no more that 50 percent effective vision in either eye, would be a liability on local roads.
They recall a recent occasion where he mounted a kerb and ran into a fence. "There could have been a child or adult walking there and he could have hurt or even killed them," speculated Pam Every, chairwoman of the Isgraig Tenants and Residents' Association.
Even Davis' driving instructor, who stopped turning up to lessons one day without a word of explanation, appears to have turned against him. He now drives with his father, Anthony.
"As far as I'm concerned he could become a good driver," said Mr Davis, with conviction. "The residents round here are just a load of clucking hens."
Hoot spokesman Mike Page is the man to talk to about car insurance for young drivers. "Davis couldn't have got a provisional licence if his vision was deemed too poor to be safe," he said.
"It might impact on his motor insurance premium" he added, "but for the time being I imagine the Davis' are focussed solely on getting Peter through his practical test."