Fair enough, you would need some degree of sight to manage this. I can see it being possible with very minimal vision though assuming one is drunk enough to have a lot of self confidence and not care about potentially running into things.

Was the car manual or automatic?

It says he became blind later in life so this one wouldn’t have much effect - if he already knew how to drive a manual that’s something one could easily do even if completely blind.

Psionics was more popular in older sci fi, a few that come to mind are:

• The Lensman series - one of the classics in sci fi, mental powers are very prominent.
• The Tower and Hive series (also Dragonriders of Pern by the same author to a lesser extent as it’s largely just telepathy in that series).
• The Saga of Pliocene Exile series.

Read stuff written before the turn of the millennium if you’re into this, I feel like it’s become less and less common in sci fi as time progresses. I guess it’s because mental powers - being effectively magic rather than technology - slot better into fantasy than sci fi in modern readers expectations.